desperadoism

These were a class of men the outgrowth of Western desperadoism, now happily passed into history.

The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History W. F. Bailey

It does not mean that we shall waste any maudlin sentiment over a desperado; and certainly it does not mean that we shall have anything but contempt for the pretender at desperadoism.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

What is true for Texas, in the record of desperadoism, is equally applicable to the country adjoining Texas upon the north, long known under the general title of the Indian Nations; although it is now rapidly being divided and allotted under the increasing demands of an ever-advancing civilization.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

For, in spite of the fact that the ideal desperado was one who did not rob or kill for gain, the most usual form of early desperadoism had to do with attempts at unlawfully acquiring another man's property.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

This was a strange feature of this old desperadoism in the West -- it paraded often in the guise of the law.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

King Fisher, who met death at the same time with Thompson, was a good disciple of desperadoism.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

In the case of Montana, law and order arrived almost synchronously with lawlessness and desperadoism.

The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Emerson Hough 1890

Honest men were not, and more than one early Western man fatally shot had his friends take off his boots before he died, so that he might not go with the stain of desperadoism attached to his name.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

In all the history of American desperadoism and of the movements which have checked it, there is no page more worth study than this from the story of the great Golden State.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

Since it would be impossible to go into any detailed mention of the scores and hundreds of desperadoes who have at different times been produced by the Nations, it may be sufficient to give a few of the salient features of the careers of the band which, as well as any, may be called typical of the Indian Nations brand of desperadoism -- the once notorious Dalton boys.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890