Treasure Island | Hollywood | Robin Hood | Bonnie and Clyde

A Pirate's Story

by Jack Boulware
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“It’s just amazing,” Wilde-Ramsing marvels. “It’s something ingrained — it may go back to Treasure Island and literature and Hollywood and the Wild West. This book that was written in 1724, A General History of the Robberies and Murder of the Most Notorious Pyrates, was a bestseller. It was like the dime-store novels of the 1800s. People are enthralled with these guys — Robin Hood, Bonnie and Clyde, that sort of rebel something … that free
spirit.”







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