OUTLAWS FROM THE WEST

Howdy folks and welcome to another blog on life in the old west. Today we will be looking at gunfighters, aka gunslingers, who were on the wrong side of the law. Do note that gunslingers is a modern term referring to outlaws or lawmen that gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun.

The age of outlawry and thievry began during and after the civil war, as a consequence of everything being expensive and most people didnt have enough money to live well,thus taking an evil path for the sake of surviving and the ideology of freedom.

The majority of outlaws preyed on stagecoaches, trains, and banks and even killed people. Some of these crimes were carried out by native Americans during the American Indian war or even Mexicans. But most of the outlaws were a simple group of men who took advantage of the wildness and lawlessness of the frontier, during and after the civil war, at the expense of others.

They would usually end up doing something stupid that will end with their capture or even death with the purpose of expansion, defense, greed, and reinvention.

But by the end of the 1800 hundreds, the law began reforming effectively,and with the help of bounty hunters, gangs were captured and the most dangerous and ruthless criminls  were dead.

Biggest outlaws of the west:

Now let’s take a look at the most famous outlaws from the west and how they inevitably came to an end in the hands of the law or bounty hunters:

1. billy the kid:

Gained a reputation for starting the outlaw life so young, beginning with horse thieving and ending up robbing and killing people while escaping jail countless times. Although he boasted about killing over 2 dozen men, that number is exaggerated. He was fatally shot by sheriff Pat Garret at the age of just 21.

2. Jesse James:

 famous for robbing banks alongside his brother in a gang after fighting in the civil war. He eventually had a huge price on his head that lead to a newly recruited member, Robert Ford, to kill him as the law promised for his freedom if he killed James.

3. butch Cassidy and the wild bunch

known for wreaking havoc on the frontier as well as robbing trains and banks. They ended up dying in a shootout with the law.

And just like these examples, by 1899 the age of outlaws and gunslingers on the frontier came to an end.