Every Childhood That Created an Outlaw

Every Childhood That Created an Outlaw The dictator videos asked what makes a tyrant. The freedom fighter video asked what makes a liberator. The conqueror video asked what makes a man who wants the map. This one asks the smaller, sharper question. What makes a man, or a woman, decide that the law itself is the enemy? Eight childhoods. From a Confederate guerrilla horsewhipped on his own farm at fifteen, to an Australian Irish-convict's son who became the symbol of working-class resistance, to a Texas sharecropper boy who learned to steal cars before he learned to read. Every outlaw was made in the gap between what the law promises and what it actually delivers. CHAPTERS: The Smaller Sharper Question Jesse James (Missouri, 1847) Ned Kelly (Victoria, Australia, 1854) Calamity Jane (Missouri / Wyoming, 1856) Billy the Kid (New York / New Mexico, 1859) Butch Cassidy (Utah, 1866) Pancho Villa (Durango, Mexico, 1878) John Dillinger (Indiana, 1903) Bonnie and Clyde (Texas, 1909-1910) The Pattern Underneath WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES: Every Childhood That Created a Dictator (Part 1) Every Childhood That Created a Dictator (Part 2) Every Childhood That Created a Freedom Fighter Every Childhood That Created a Cult Leader Every Childhood That Created a Conqueror SOURCES 1. Stiles, T. J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. Vintage, 2003. 2. Goodrich, Thomas. Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border 1861-1865. Indiana University Press, 1995. 3. Jones, Ian. Ned Kelly: A Short Life. Lothian Books, 2003. 4. McMenomy, Keith. Ned Kelly: The Authentic Illustrated History. Hardie Grant, 2001. 5. Etulain, Richard W. The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 6. Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. Yale University Press, 1979. 7. Utley, Robert M. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 8. Gardner, Mark Lee. To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. William Morrow, 2010. 9. Patterson, Richard. Butch Cassidy: A Biography. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 10. Meadows, Anne. Digging Up Butch and Sundance. University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 11. Katz, Friedrich. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford University Press, 1998. 12. McLynn, Frank. Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution. Basic Books, 2002. 13. Matera, Dary. John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal. Da Capo Press, 2005. 14. Burrough, Bryan. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 1933-34. Penguin, 2004. 15. Guinn, Jeff. Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. Simon and Schuster, 2009. 16. Phillips, John Neal. Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. TAGS outlaw, jesse james, ned kelly, billy the kid, butch cassidy, pancho villa, john dillinger, bonnie and clyde, calamity jane, wild west, american history, every childhood that created, the history explainer, dark history, history documentary Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes. All historical claims are sourced above. Some details from outlaw biographies reflect interpretive history rather than direct testimony, and several of these subjects were prolific self-mythologisers; where accounts differ, the most widely accepted scholarly version is used and disputed claims are flagged in the script.