1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · SpainCandelas, Elegance on the Run
Madrid and the highwayman reclothed by legend
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1701 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandThe Pirate Had Shareholders
William Kidd: unsealing the contract before the chest
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe Pilgrim's Gift
A traveller changes a gold piece. The man following her offers his assista…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Condemned Man Who Waited for an Engine
Following the theft of a pocketbook and a sentence of death, Pelletier wai…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Price of Peace
Schinderhannes: stealing horses, selling protection, and bartering his con…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Dead Man’s Five Horses
Carpentier: a murdered farmer, a forgotten snuffbox, and brigands of exces…
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1500 · 15th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyEighteen Hanged upon the Pilgrim Road
A French ambassador stripped near Viterbo unleashed a ruthless hunt for br…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Night Cartouche Spoke
Cartouche: the brigand’s renown, the secrecy of the trial, and the names s…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Buried Watch
Along the Bergstraße, two Swiss merchants were robbed and beaten. One died…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Road No Longer Belonged to Wayfarers
From Marseilles to the mountain passes of L’Escarène, a band sowed terror…
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1653 · 17th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyJasper Hanebuth: The Morrows’ Horses
A threatened merchant refused to surrender his horses and lodged a formal…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe King Possessed of Only Roads
Angelo Duca rode into villages to ringing cheers, even as the king’s soldi…
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1771 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyHiasl: The Brigand Acquitted by Song
Gamekeepers were disarmed, taverns became battlegrounds, and peasants wave…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Travellers Who Awaited the Robbers
Tissot must pass for a merchant in a stagecoach marked out for highwaymen.…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyHannikel — The Dying Man Had Lived Long Enough to Speak
A dying soldier names his assailants. The manhunt for Hannikel crosses bor…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Three Stitches of Blue Thread
A fugitive arrives to purchase a coat from a seamstress. She recognizes th…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyNickel List: The Baron with the Skeleton Keys
A former soldier assumes the airs of a nobleman, while brazen thefts weave…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe Cord Bought Elsewhere
Arcangeli slays Winckelmann; an error among the witnesses provokes the dec…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · BelgiumThe Shoes Left Behind
Buckles of red copper betray a thief. From the cobbler’s trail to the publ…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Name Above the Counter
The traveler bids the innkeeper read aloud his own wanted poster. A hundre…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceThe Receipts of Mandrin
At Bourg, Mandrin compelled the agents of the General Farm to purchase his…
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1581 · 16th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Traveller’s Knapsack
Peter Niers: in the bathhouses of Neumarkt, the street-ballad brings low i…
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1863 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe Woods That Sheltered Him No More
The goatherd turned bandit chieftain knew every bridle path of Castellanet…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe Twenty-Seventh Paolo
On the eve of his execution, a thief receives an unexpected visit from the…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceAn Invitation to the Scaffold
Nivet: a couple murdered upon the highway, and ninety-nine accused before…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Key on the Other Side
Fetzer knew how to break from gaols and slip across borders. Yet a nameles…
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1902 · 20th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Man Who Summoned the Gendarmes
Kneissl: a refuge, two dead men, and a host accused of laying an ambush.
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1756 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandThe Witness Knew the Bargain
Spanish Jack: the mariner who turned King’s evidence against his fellows,…
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1774 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandThe Sixteen Strings
John Rann, known as Sixteen-stringed Jack, was acquitted after several sus…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · Germany (Hanau)The Knapsack on the Frankfurt Road
Hanau, 1831. Released from prison without means, Peter Kitzler murders a t…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · Algeria (French colonial context)The Seam of the Purse
Algiers, 1861–1862. Following a nocturnal assault on the Dellys road, Salo…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe Last Silence of Weiler
In 1810, the Special Court of Mainz condemned Damian Hessel, Franz Joseph…
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1800 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandThe Postilion Knew the Road
Richard Ferguson, known as “Galloping Dick,” rose from the stable-yard to…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · IrelandThe Name of Cooney
Jeremiah Grant, styled a captain by Pelham, returned in 1816 to Queen’s Co…
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