Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. The Maxwell Family Moves West -- 2. The Maxwells in Troubled Fulton County -- 3. The Maxwells in McDonough County -- 4. Law and Order, and Prison Life -- 5. The Maxwell Brothers Become Outlaws -- 6. The Great Escape-and Recapture -- 7. Prison Time and Justice Issues -- 8. Lon's Struggle to Go Straight -- 9. The Wisconsin Desperadoes -- 10. The Gunfight at Durand -- 11. The Great Manhunt -- 12. Another Gunfight-and the Renewed Manhunt -- 13. Ed's Capture and Lon's Escape -- 14. The Desperado and the Public -- 15. The Lynching at Durand -- 16. The Lynching Controversy and Durand's Fate -- 17. The Mysterious Fate of Lon Maxwell -- Epilogue: The Story Life of the Maxwell Brothers -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 108 and 218 -- Illustrations follow page 108 and 218.