In reality, neither is the idea of bounty hunters as old as characters immortalized by Clint Eastwood and Henry Fonda would have us believe.
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"Also, most bounties were for less than $100, not the thousands of dollars one hears about in the movies." So yeah, the frontier wasn't as full of old timey Boba Fetts hunting down Han Solos as our movies would have us think.
"Many town marshals and sheriffs supplemented their meager incomes by collecting bounties," wrote Trimble, who just had to go on and burst another Wild West bubble of ours. Fugitives and the "bounties" (we'll get into that in a minute) on their heads were more often wrangled by public peace officers, private detective agencies, or companies like Wells, Fargo & Co. According to True West magazine's Marshall Trimble, the lone bounty hunter despised by outlaws, lawmen, and citizens alike for making a living off hunting down fugitives isn't really historically accurate. But the reality of the situation isn't what the movies would have you think. These and the bounty hunters they imply must have been plastered all over bulletin boards in the Old West, right?
"Wanted: Dead or Alive" printed beneath the portrait of a mangy stagecoach robber with a bushy mustache and beady, piercing eyes. It's a trope common to spaghetti westerns and our idea of United States history in general: the classic wanted sign, its edged singed with days of the burning desert sun. The famous bounty hunter announced a new merchandise line in honor of his late wife, fan-favorite Beth Chapman, who died from throat cancer in June 2019 (via The Sun), and while Dog may have found.