The Birth of an Outlaw - True West Magazine
True West Magazine By the end of the nineteenth century the old ways of outlawry in the West were slowly dying out. The James-Younger Gang, the Daltons, Doolins, and the rest had all their day in the sun and had crossed over the divide. Before the curtain came down the last of the great outlaw gangs would ride outlaw trail. The popularly-known name “Wild Bunch,” was applied the Pinkerton Detective Agency in the early 1900s after the gang was broken up. In their heyday they were known as the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Actually, there were several Hole in the Wall gangs that took their name f...