| Abstract | Reviews Homer Croy's 'Jesse James Was My Neighbor' (1997), Paul Maccabee's 'John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crook's Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936' (1995), and John Neal Phillips's 'Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults' (1996). These works draw heavily on oral sources to explore collective memories of outlaws' lives. All demonstrate that outlaws' exploits tend to be grafted onto competing social and political ideologies and produce legends that become more important than the facts of the outlaws' careers. These studies thus suggest that nostalgia and memory become fertile objects of investigation in their own right.
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