Western outlaws were the product of a lawless and violent era during the post-Civil War days and the lust for land and gold.  They their infancy emanated during the Mexican War and they spent their teen years during the California Gold Rush and the Kansas-Missouri Border War. During the Civil War they reached maturity as soldiers and guerilla fighters on both sides.  Their adulthood wa


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