[SG]? RE: Re: Rescuing livestock

[ Delurk ]
> From: <devans@uneb.edu>

> From the little reading/history shows I've done/seen on the period,
It makes great cinema though.

You're standard dirt farmer was actually pretty well armed (typically with at
least a shotgun, and often hunting rifle (and sometimes a pistol)), and as
often as not had combat expierence during the American Civil War. The gangs
succeeded because they were also, as often as not, trained in raiding and
guerilla warfare during the American Civil War.

Just look what happened to Jesse Jame's gang in Northfield Minnesota, to see
what happened when the "defenseless townsfolk" reacted fast enough to respond
in force to a raid.

DarylL