Image: Edward Bonney

Description: An 1850 woodcut of Edward Bonney, at 38 years old, sitting, wearing a top hat and holding a walking cane, from his self-written book, The Banditti of the Prairies: or, The murderer's doom, a tale of Mississippi Valley and the Far West. Bonney was a bounty hunter and amateur detective, who posed as a counterfeiter, in 1845, to infiltrate, a faction, of the "Banditti of the Prairie" and track down the murderers of Colonel George Davenport.
Title: Edward Bonney
Credit: From an original, 1850 edition, of Edward Bonney's The Banditti of the Prairies, Or, The Murderer's Doom!!: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, scanned by Indiana University - https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/bookman/article/.../3439
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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