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The careers of many outlaws have been glamorized through fictional accounts of their deeds and their exploits have been the basis for many movie scripts.
The era of theAmerican outlaw lasted about 100 years roughly from 1800 to 1900．There had been lawlessness during theColonialErA、Frontiers have always attracted misfits, failures and renegades who hope to profit by being beyond the reach of government. In the years just before the Revolutionary War, gangs of horse thieves in the back country of SouthCarolina were broken up by organized bands of farmers called regulators.
As frontier settlement expanded rapidly after the Revolution, more opportunities for criminals opened, two common types of bandits were highwaymen and river pirates. Highwaymen accosted people who traveled on foot or horseback, while river pirates preyed upon the boat traffic on the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers. Some bandits engaged in both.
Criminals in the West gathered momentum with the gold rushes toCalifornia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and other states. Stagecoaches and trains carrying gold and money became prime targets for bands of outlaws.Bank robberies emerged after theCalifornia Gold Rush of 1849 and as prosperity found its way to frontier towns. The first stage robbery was recorded in 1851, and the first train robbery happened in 1866.
After theCivil War there was the growth of the cattle kingdom in Texas and neighboring states.Cattle rustling and horse theft turned into significant operations. Range wars bred a great amount of violence.Cattlemen fought over land and water rights, and they fought with great bitterness against sheep farmers. In Texas, range wars were fought over the use of barbed wire to fence grazing lanD、
By the end of the 19th century, the frontier era was past. Major crime shifted to the cities.Ethnic gangs had existed in the slums for decades, preying mostly on their fellow immigrants. With the arrival of Prohibition in the 1920s, an impetus was given to the formation of organized crime as it exists today.
Banks gained their prosperity in frontier towns after 1849.
C．After theCivil War, thieves turned to steal cattle and horses.
D．In Texas, cattlemen had to fight for the access to land and water.
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
第五段首句提到：随着在加利福尼亚、爱达荷、蒙大拿、内华达等州的淘金热的出现，西部的犯罪行为愈演愈烈。选择A，它是对此的同义叙述，所以正确；B是对该句信息的错误理解；而C和D分别是第六段第二句和第四句的同义转述。因此答案为B。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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