
Rogue (overviews & introductions)
Print:
- Bandits by Eric J. Hobsbawm
- Robin Hood by JC Holt
- The Outlaws of Medieval Legend by Maurice Keen
- Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History Graham Seal
Online:
- The Robin Hood Principal: Folklore, History and the Social Bandit, Graham Seal
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (fiction) by Howard Pyle – Project Gutenberg
- The Outlaw in Medieval and Early Modern England – British National Archives
She Sailed Under a Black Flag
Print:
- Anne Bonny & Mary Read: The Golden Age of Piracy’s Most Famous Women by Charles River Editors
- Mary Read: Pirate Wench by Frank Shay
- Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere by S.A. Green
- Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity by Hans Turley
- Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy by Gabriel Kuhn
Online:
- If There’s a Man Among Ye – Smithsonian Magazine
- Elizabethan Era
The Midway, Carnies & the Murderous Lobster Boy of Gibsonton, Florida
Print:
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- Weird Florida by Charlie Carlson
- Murder in the Tropics by Stuart B. McIver, Stuart B. McIver
- Lobster Boy by Fred Rosen
Online:
- Chicago Park District-Midway Park
- Carnivals and the International Independent Showmen’s Association, Inc.
- Photos of Carnies
- Ciazarn, Czarny, or Carny Latin
- How to Lose at Carny Games
- 5 Commonly Fixed Carnival Games
- Beat the Carnies: The Secrets to Winning 5 Popular State Fair Games
- Modern Day Sideshow Performers
- Carnivals – Martin Burke (Documentary)
- Gibsonton: Where Carnies go to Get Away from Civilians
- Diary of a Carny – Kevin Morra
- The Stiles Family – Lobster People
- “He Was Like Satan Himself” Kin Tell of Beatings by Lobster Boy
- Murder on the Midway: Sordid Life and Death of Lobster Boy
The Mystery of Etta Place, Wild West Outlaw
Print:
- Sundance, Butch And Me by Judy Alter (Historical Fiction)
- The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch
Online:
- Etta Place: Mysterious Queen of the Wild West – Suite101
- Just Who Was the Outlaw Queen Etta Place – History to Go
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Etta Place – Criminal Element
- Mystery of Ann Bassett and Etta Place – Mental Floss
- The Wild Bunch Gang
John Hawkwood, the White Company & the Days of Flying Pigs
Print:
- The Devil’s Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy by Frances Stonor Saunders
- Hawkewood’s Sword by Frank Payton
- Sir John Hawkwood (L’Acuto): Story of a Condottiere by John Temple Leader
- Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of The White Company in Italy by Marion Polk Angellotti
- John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy by William Caferro
- Mercenaries And Their Masters: Warfare In Renaissance Italy by Michael Edward Mallett
- Condottiere 1300-1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries by David Murphy
Online:
The Head of Joaquin Murrietta, aka: Zorro
Print:
- Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit by John Rollin Ridge
- The Robin Hood of El Dorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California’s Age of Gold by Walter Noble Burns, Richard Griswold Del Castillo
- Fulgor y muerte de Joaquin Murieta/ Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta by Pablo Neruda
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Online:
Stand & Deliver: Tales of Gentleman Highwayman
Print:
- Outlaws and Highwaymen by Gillian Spraggs
- Stand & Deliver! A History of Highway Robbery by David Brandon
- The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh
Online:
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For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. These reading lists, along with selected excerpts, illustrations and summaries of each month’s talks are compiled in our monthly Odd Salon Journal. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Amy Widdowson, Marcelo Pontin, Janelle Slavik, Josh Greenwalt, Matthew Nelson, and Ian Dawson. Thank you!