The years just before 1880 until about 1885 are considered the
"outlaw years," when lawlessness developed a law of its own and
planned an empire. Operating along the Natchez Trace, an overland
trading and postal-rider route that in places was barely a trail,
the outlaws preyed upon the traffic along this line. Their plans
were laid in the dives under the bluffs of the river towns--Natchez
and Vicksburg and as far south as New Orleans. By far the bloodiest
were the Harpes, who were capable of spectacular murders solely to
amuse their comrades. Another gang of outlaws under John Murrell
even threatened national stability for a time in his plot to steal
slaves and organize insurrection in order to disorganize the
government and establish his own state. This conspiracy was
discovered and defeated by a store clerk who joined the outlaws and
lived several perilous months among them. He was almost hung by
Murrell's secret partisans among the "respectable" elements. After
the overthrow of the "outlaw empire" in 1885, the scene shifted:
the frontier advanced; outlaw violence changed its forms, but it
never again reached the terrible and magnificent range of the
"outlaw years."
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