When I was a kid (think “the seventies“) we admired quite a few outlaws. Robin Hood was a favorite, as were the pirates who we, when we were lucky (with our three channels of TV and no DVRs) could catch in reruns of black-and-white movies. But, being American, our greatest outlaw heroes came from the period of time known as “the Old West” or “the Wild West,” which was more or less the period between 1850 and 1900 in the United States. It wasn’t until I was older and spent time learning about this period of time that I