horse theft
Taking someone's mount
Horse theft is the crime of stealing a horse.
In earlier centuries, when horses were essential for transportation, farming, and livelihood, horse theft was punishable by death in many jurisdictions.
The term persists in legal codes and historical contexts: Horse theft was a hanging offense in the Old West.
- rustlingSoft crackling noise
- cattle rustlingStealing livestock, especially cows
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- outlawFugitive from justice
- Wild WestAmerica's lawless frontier era
Old West · hanging · hanging judge · lynch mob · brand · rancher · posse · frontier · saddle · livestock · bandit · gallows · corral · stolen · reward · wanted poster · dead or alive · sheriff
- theftstealing, larceny, steal, burglary, robbery
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- frontier crimescattle rustling, train robbery, stagecoach robbery, bank robbery, rustling
- historical crimehighway robbery, pickpocketing, burglary, arson, piracy
- historical crimestreason, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, piracy
- rural crimescattle rustling, poaching, rustling, barn burning, cattle mutilation