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What Was the Legal Status of "Wanted – Dead or Alive" in the Wild West Days? (Assuming those posters weren’t a creation of Hollywood)

07 Oct

Kenneth Anderson wants to know: First, to what extent was this actually a historical practice [in 19th century frontier days], or is it really just a creation of Hollywood westerns– any scholarship on this, or actual examples? Second, from the…