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Outlaws In The Frontier
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Horse thieves, cattle rustlers, bank robbers, train and stagecoach robbers, highwaymen, murderers these were but some of the criminals who infested the American frontier during the 19th century. The word outlaw is a translation of the Italian bandito, meaning "someone who has been banished because ....
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....ighwaymen accosted people who traveled on foot or horseback, while river pirates preyed upon the boat traffic on the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers. Some bandits engaged in both.
Among the most notorious early outlaws were the Harpe brothers, Micajah and Wiley, who staged a crime wave of murder and robbery from Tennessee to Illinois between 1795 and 1800. Headquarters for the brothers and other notorious outlaws was Cave-in-Rock in Hardin County, Ill. This was long a meeting place for pirat.... |
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