Except, of course, for their rather disastrous raid on Northfield, MN.
I was not disagreeing with your basic concept, simply pointing out that the association of these gangs with The West is not really accurate.
“I was not disagreeing with your basic concept, simply pointing out that the association of these gangs with The West is not really accurate.”
In the years following the Civil War, that WAS the West - the settled West. Push past that, and “thar be Injuns”: The Fetterman Massacre in 1868(?), and even Custer’s Last Stand was in 1876.