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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 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 ...
For over a year, Scurlock was in several posses to pursue and arrest horse thieves. He, Bowdre, and others lynched some of the thieves they caught. In January 1877, Scurlock and a neighbor, George Coe, were arrested by Sheriff William J. Brady for suspicion of harboring a murdering fugitive and member of the Jesse Evans Gang named Frank Freeman.
It was popularized by the 1969 movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and took its name from the original Wild Bunch. The gang was led by Butch Cassidy , and it included his closest friends Elzy Lay , the Sundance Kid , Tall Texan , News Carver , Camilla "Deaf Charley" Hanks , Laura Bullion , Flat-Nose Curry , Kid Curry , and Bob Meeks . [ 1 ]
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.
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 ...