The Luckiest Outlaw: The Life and Legends of Doc Middleton

By Harold Hutton

James Riley, alias Doc Middleton (ca. 18511913), was a notorious horse thief and murderer, a respectable businessman, a winner with the women, and an open-handed benefactor of the unfortunate. As a wanted man, Middleton concealed his past at every turn, burned incriminating letters, threw out red-herring tales, and lived under a dozen names. Because he was so hard to pin down and round up, a Cheyenne newspaper called him "the luckiest outlaw who ever infested the western frontier." Harold Hutton, a rancher on the Niobrara River, deep in "Doc Middleton country," has written the definitive biography of this Great Plains Robin Hood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080327257X
• ISBN13: 9780803272576
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"