The Saga of Henry Starr
by Robert J. Conley
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Henry Starr was one of the most notorious criminals of the Old West, famed far and wide for robbing two banks in the same town at the same timeâ??a feat even the Dalton Gang couldnâ??t pull off. Still, Henry Starr was a reluctant outlaw.An honest, hardworking seventeen-year-old Cherokee cowboy with a steady job and a steady girl, he was framed and arrested for a crime he didnâ??t commit. When he was falsely accused and convicted a second time, Starr figured that since he was branded a show more criminal, he might as well become oneâ??and proceeded to make himself one of the most wanted men in the West. â??If Iâ??m going to have the name of a criminal, I might as well have the game,â? he declared as he embarked on his life of crime. By the time he was through, he was said to have robbed more banks than any other man in history.
From Henry Starrâ??s initiation as an outlaw, to a death sentence handed down by â??Hanging Judgeâ? Parker, to his final days playing the bad guy in Hollywood movies, The Saga of Henry Starr is a colorful retelling show less
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Robert J. Conley was born in 1940 in Cushing Oklahoma. He is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. He is noted for depictions of precontact and historical Cherokee figures. He is known for a series of books called the Real People Series. The sixth show more of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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