>>21639025that's what i originally said about the instances of bounties. it would have been something they resorted to when the area was already violent. i was replying to someone who had implied that it was common practice throughout all of westward expansion.
however there were probably crooked bounty scalpers who went all over the place snatching whatever they could as long as they knew someone somewhere was paying. other than that, i was saying it was probably justified and designed to mirror what had been done to settlers by natives before
