By Clifton H. Wooldridge.

In presenting this work to the public the author has no apologies to make nor favors to ask. It is a simple history of his connection with the Police Department of Chicago, compiled from his own memoranda, the newspapers, and the official records. His aim has been solely to protect society and the taxpayer, and to punish the guilty. The evidences of his sincerity accompany the book in the form of letters from the highest officers in the city government, from the mayor down to the precinct captain, and furnish overwhelming testimony as to his endeavors to serve the public faithfully and honestly. No effort has been made to bestow self-praise, and where this occurs, it is only a reproduction, perhaps in different language, of the comments indulged in by the newspapers of Chicago and other cities.

Chicago: Chicago Publishing, 1908. 612p.

No author listed.

The North Carolina Bandits, being a complete history of the modern Rob Roys and Robin Hoods. “ The homely old adage that there is ‘nothing new under the sun’ is constantly verifies by actual facts occurring every day. The accounts handed down by tradition of ‘bold archer Robin Hood’ keeping whole countries on alert, and disputing there right to kill fat bucks in the royal forest with the boldest barons, have seemed almost too daring for relief, yet here we have — in this enlightened period of the world’s history — a whole State of the most powerful and most enlightened nation of the earth successfully defied by a band of less than a dozen Outlaws.”

New York. De Witt Publisher. (1872) 84 pages.

By Phillip Gosse.

“Let it be made clear at the very outset of this Preface that the pages which follow do not pretend to be a history of piracy, but are simply an attempt to gather together, from various sources, particulars of those redoubtable pirates and buccaneers whose names have been handed down to us in a desultory way.”

Burt Franklin, NY. (1924) 329 pages.

By Charles Finger.

With illustrations by Paul Honore. “The term ‘bushranger’ was first used by those living under the Southern Cross to signify not necessarily an outlaw, but rather something very like the chaldon of Siberia, prisoners who, rather than submit tamely to gross indignities thrust upon them by men in authority, dared to publish their own emancipation proclamations, facing unknown dangers with a slight hope of freedom.”

N.Y. Robert M. McBride & Co. (1924).

By J. Dimsdale.

Or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains.. “Being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture, execution of Henry Plummer’s Road Agent Band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes. The whole thing being interspersed with sketches of the life in the mining camps of the Far West.”

State Publishing Co. (1866) 352 pages