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"The highwayman died at York in 1739. The 190-mile gallop to York was invented a century later by a novelist who needed a hero and a horse."
Dick Turpin and the Ride That Never Happened — the real man died on a rope at Knavesmire, not on Black Bess across the North.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/dick-turpin-and-the-ride-that-never
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"The highwayman died at York in 1739. The 190-mile gallop to York was invented a century later by a novelist who needed a hero and a horse."
Dick Turpin and the Ride That Never Happened — the real man died on a rope at Knavesmire, not on Black Bess across the North.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/dick-turpin-and-the-ride-that-never