Author Description

This book displays twenty-five 54 mm dioramas of notorious gangsters, pirates, and wild west gunfighters that I crafted over the past eight years. Along with each diorama, is a brief biography of their killings, misdeeds, lawlessness, and in most cases, their violent deaths. The stories of these villainous characters are riveting lessons that crime, killings, and misadventures will almost always lead you down a path to destruction. Men that live outside the laws of society will live a life that Thomas Hobbes called, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Their stories are vivid examples of man's immoral nature who would happily steal everything that you own, if you did not lock the front door to your house. The dioramas pictured in my book are of Gangsters: Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone, George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes, John Herbert Dillinger, and Bonnie & Clyde. Pirates: Sir Henry Morgan, Stede Bonnet, John "Calico Jack" Rackham, Francois L'Olonnais, Edward "Ned" Low, Edward England, Captain William Kidd, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Bartholomew Roberts, and Cornelis Corneliszoon. Gunfighters: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Butch Cassidy and the "Sundance Kid," Jesse Woodson James, John Wesley Hardin, Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty and Sheriff Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. In addition, there are seven musings and reflections of the author for 2020.