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Outlawry

See also Highwaymen, Thievery.

Bass, Sam

(1851–1878) train robber and all-around desperado. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 244]

Billy the Kid

(William H. Bonney, 1859–1881) infamous cold-blooded killer. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 30]

Bonnie and Clyde

(Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow) bank robbers and killers (1930s). [Am. Hist.: Worth, 35]

Cassidy, Butch, and the Sundance Kid

(Henry Brown) (fl. late 19th century) Western outlaws made famous by popular film. [Am. Hist. and Am. Cinema: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Halliwell, 116]

Dalton

gang bank robbers of late 1800s; killed in shootout (1892). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 15–16]

Dillinger, John

(1902–1934) murderous gunslinging bank robber of 1930s. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 290]

Grettir

Viking adventurer, outlawed for his ruthless slayings. [Icelandic Lit.: Grettir the Strong in Magill I, 335]

Holliday, “Doc”

(fl. late 19th century) outlaw who helped Wyatt Earp fight the Clanton gang (1881). [Am. Hist.: Misc.]

James, Jesse

(1847–1882) romanticized train and bank robber. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 219]

Ringo, Johnny

(fl. late 19th century) notorious outlaw and gunfighter in the Southwest. [Am. Hist.: Misc.]

Rob Roy

(Robert MacGregor, 1671–1734) Scottish Highland outlaw remembered in Sir Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy (1818). [Scottish Hist.: EB, VIII: 619]

Robin Hood

(13th century) legendary outlaw of England who robbed the rich to help the poor. [Br. Hist.: EB, VIII: 615–616]

Turpin, Dick

(1706–1739) English outlaw who robbed travelers on the road from London to Oxford. [Br. Hist.: WB, 19: 425]

Villa, Pancho

(1878–1923) notorious Mexican bandit and revolutionary. [Mex. Hist.: EB, X: 435–436]