Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota . Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Great Plains. Meet South Dakota's Wild Ones From Deadwood to Aberdeen, Vermillion to Belle Fourche, the frontier towns of South Dakota were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Chief Two Sticks led a starving band of rebels on a desperate path of destruction. Bud Stevens’s murder of a cattle king’s son rang a death knell for an entire town. And bank robbers Stelle and Bennie Dickinson did their best to become South Dakota’s very own Bonnie and Clyde. From Wild Bill Hickock to Lame Johnny, Jack McCall to Lee “Curly” Grimes, read about the most notorious desperados in the history of the Mount Rushmore State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of South Dakota introduces you to a state you thought you knew― and a West wilder than you’ve ever imagined. Tom Griffith attended the University of London before he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a reporter, photographer and managing editor of award-winning newspapers in Arizona, Montana and South Dakota before serving as director of communications for the Mount Rushmore Preservation Fund, a nationwide campaign that raised $25 million to preserve and improve the mountain memorial. In addition to writing articles for dozens of newspapers and magazines, Tom is the author of five books, including America's Shrine of Democracy, with a foreword by Ronald Reagan; South Dakota , a comprehensive guide to the state published and distributed worldwide by Random House; and Greeno: A Winning Tradition, with a foreword by NBC's Tom Brokaw. Griffith's travel writing, news articles and features have appeared in The New York Times , Wisconsin State Journal , Billings Gazette , Bismarck Tribune and The New Zealand Herald , among others, as well as a host of periodicals, including AAA Living, Historic Traveler, Midwest Living, Home & Away, Country Inns, Hadassah and Western Horseman . He has been a contributing writer to Random House for more than a decade, co-authoring three dozen volumes, including Fodor's USA, Healthy Escapes, Great American Vacations, The Old West, The Lewis & Clark Trail , and National Parks of the West . Tom and his wife, Nyla, who have visited forty countries together, make their home in the Black Hills of South Dakota where they operate an advertising, marketing and public relations firm with clients nationwide. In their spare time, they enjoy trout fishing, motorcycling and travel.