These were a class of men the outgrowth of Western desperadoism, now happily passed into history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference

King Fisher, who met death at the same time with Thompson, was a good disciple of desperadoism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

My idea, when I began this chapter, was to say something about desperadoism in the "flush times" of Nevada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

This was a strange feature of this old desperadoism in the West -- it paraded often in the guise of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

With the permission of the reader, I will group together, in the next chapter, some samples of life in our small mountain village in the old days of desperadoism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

In all the history of American desperadoism and of the movements which have checked it, there is no page more worth study than this from the story of the great Golden State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

It does not mean that we shall waste any maudlin sentiment over a desperado; and certainly it does not mean that we shall have anything but contempt for the pretender at desperadoism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

Honest men were not, and more than one early Western man fatally shot had his friends take off his boots before he died, so that he might not go with the stain of desperadoism attached to his name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

For, in spite of the fact that the ideal desperado was one who did not rob or kill for gain, the most usual form of early desperadoism had to do with attempts at unlawfully acquiring another man's property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference

Western desperadoism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference