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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | "Banditti of the Prairies" |
| Archival Reference | LMC 1322 |
| Sub-collection | Ellison Manuscripts, 1790-1949 |
| Author | Bonney, Edward |
| Date | n.d. |
| Document Type | Memoir |
| Contents | Edward Bonney (August 26, 1807 – February 4, 1864) was a 19th-century adventurer, miller, hotel keeper, city planner, counterfeiter, livery stable keeper, bounty hunter, private detective, postmaster, merchant, soldier, and author. He is best known for his undercover work in exposing the "Banditti of the Prairie", resulting from his investigation of the torture-murder of noted Illinois pioneer and frontiersman, George Davenport. The Banditti of the Prairie also, known as "The Prairie Bandits," "Pirates of the Prairie," "Prairie Pirates," or simply "The Banditti," in the U.S. state of Illinois, were a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs during the early-mid-19th century (1800s). Conducted house burglary, horse and cattle theft, stagecoach and highway robbery, counterfeiting, murder. |
| Sub-collection Information | The Ellison mss., 1790-1949, consist of materials compiled by Robert Spurrier Ellison, 1875-1945, oil producer. Ellison was from Casper, Wyoming, vice-president of Midwest Refining Company, and dedicated to preserving historic reminders of pioneer virtues.The collection includes correspondence, memorandum books, overland diaries, journals of travel by water, accounts of skirmishes with Indians, and transportation in the Far West. |
| Region | American Southwest, California & Mexico |
| Subjects | Weaponry Law and Order Crime Towns and Cities Travel and Transportation Steamboats Livestock Murder Death Narratives, accounts and histories Violence |
| Places | Illinois; Fort Madison |
| People | Bonney, Edward (1807-1846) Davenport, George Smith, Hiram |
| Themes | Law & Order |
| Library | Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Copyright | Lilly Library, Indiana University |