Word: thorson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days of the Wild West, when shorthanded sheriffs had to enlist free-lance help in tracking down stagecoach robbers and cattle rustlers. Bounty hunters have been celebrated in popular culture--The Hunter, a Steve McQueen movie was inspired by the story of legendary bounty hunter Ralph Thorson, and Midnight Run presented Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter. "It harks back to the endless Western frontier, where no law existed and bounty hunters crossed state lines in pursuit of justice," says Robert McCrie, a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice...