Horse theft

Horse theft is the crime of stealing a horse. A person accused of stealing a horse is known as a horse thief. Horse theft was fairly common throughout the world prior to widespread car ownership. Punishments were often severe for horse theft. In several places the sentence of death was carried out.^[1] This was seen as a deterrent against horse theft.^[1] Death for an agricultural crime such as horse theft is seen as inhumane under most modern systems of law.^[1] Horse theft is an uncommon crime today.^[2]

Horse Theft Media

Oregon cowboys circa 1900 dramatizing the fate of a horse thief
Alfred Jacob Miller's Snake Indian Pursuing "Crow" Horse Thief, c.1859.
Bentonville Anti-horse Thief Society historical marker in Ohio
The trial of a horse thief chromolithograph in 1877
Tree in Horse Thief Canyon, where a number of horse thieves were hanged taken in 1913
Horse Thief by George Caleb Bingham, 1852

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Wilbur R. Miller (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2012), p. 1034
↑ Jonathon Green, Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime (London: Random House, 2011), p. 98

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[Miller1034-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Wilbur R. Miller (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2012), p. 1034

[2] Jonathon Green, Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime (London: Random House, 2011), p. 98

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