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English: An 1850 woodcut of Edward Bonney, at 38 years old, sitting, wearing a top hat and holding a walking cane, from his self-written book, The Banditti of the Prairies: or, The murderer's doom, a tale of Mississippi Valley and the Far West . Bonney was a bounty hunter and amateur detective, who posed as a counterfeiter , in 1845, to infiltrate, a faction, of the " Banditti of the Prairie " and track down the murderers of Colonel George Davenport .
Source From an original, 1850 edition, of Edward Bonney's The Banditti of the Prairies, Or, The Murderer's Doom!!: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, scanned by Indiana University - https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/bookman/article/.../3439
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2016-03-06 23:34:59 326 × 414 Chitt66 From an original, 1850 edition, of Edward Bonney's The Banditti of the Prairies, Or, The Murderer's Doom!!: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, scanned by Indiana University - https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/bookman/article/.../3439