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A number of Old West gangs left a lasting impression on American history. While rare, the incidents were retold and embellished by dime novel and magazine authors during the late 19th and the early 20th century.
The posse had ostensibly been chasing Tunstall to attach, i.e., seize by legal authority, some stock Tunstall and his men were driving from Tunstall's ranch on the Feliz River to Lincoln, but the posse's real motivation may have been to eliminate John Tunstall as an economic threat to businessmen James Dolan and L.G. Murphy, who allegedly had ...
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The Wild Bunch gang claimed to make every attempt to abstain from killing people, and Cassidy boasted of having never killed a single man or woman in his entire career. These claims were false, however. Kid Curry, "Flat-Nose" Curry, Will "News" Carver, and other members of the gang killed numerous people during their flight from law enforcement.
The marshal's posse soon cornered and killed Yantis in a shootout. [citation needed] On June 11, 1893, the Wild Bunch held up a Santa Fe train west of Cimarron, Kansas. They took $1,000 in silver from the California-New Mexico Express. A sheriff's posse from old Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory, caught up with the gang north of Fort Supply ...
The fictitious gang takes its name from stealing large amounts of gold bullion and disguising them as bricks in gang-owned buildings. In Outlawed , a 2021 alternate history novel by Anna North , [ 5 ] a band of barren women come together to form the Hole in the Wall Gang, led by The Kid, determined to create a safe haven in a world where barren ...
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In 19th-century usage, posse comitatus also acquired the generalized or figurative meaning. [5] In classical Latin, posse is a contraction of potesse, an irregular Latin verb meaning "to be able". [6] [7] [8] The unusual genitive in "-ūs" is a feature of the fourth declension.