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  1. The Summer of 1876 "Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West" Sale: $21 to $1.99 by Chris Wimmer Rating: 4.5/5 (590 Reviews) #history #west #americas #kindle #books #podcast #lawmen #outlaws #legend #wyatt #custer #wildbill #deadwood #baseball #booksky

    The Summer of 1876

  2. "In Anglo-Saxon England, the bounty for killing an outlaw was the same as for killing a wolf. By the late Middle Ages, this had evolved into the legal principle of wolfesheed: the outlaw was a wolf, able to be hunted and killed exactly like a wolf, legally and by any means."

    reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/com

    Found via initiativeone.blogspot.com/201 which has more good RPG thoughts about bandits.

    #history #outlaws #anglosaxon #ttrpg #osr #bandits #blogospherefind

  3. A quotation from Cicero

    That, Senators, is what a favour from gangsters amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
     
    [Quod est aliud, patres conscripti, beneficium latronum, nisi ut commemorare possint iis se dedisse vitam, quibus non ademerint?]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 3 / sec. 5 (3.3; 3.5) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Grant (1960)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bandits #brigands #crime #criminals #gangsters #mercy #murder #outlaws #robbers #sparing #lowbar #expectations