Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

thanks Thanks Kathryn and all of you for this lively discussion. Lots of good points are being brought out. Please continue. I'll decide on this sometime tomorrow morning.

David Russi Mar 4, 2009:

Juan Jacob: BTW, the term highway is really old, and there most certainly were highways in the XIX century (not like today's, of course), and highway banditry was common: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=highway

David Russi Mar 4, 2009:

Según el DRAE bandolero no viene ni de bandolera ni de banda, sino de bando, es decir, "Facción, partido, parcialidad", es decir, no significa gangster, sino de alguna forma, "partisan"

Juan Jacob Mar 4, 2009:

To femme: please forgive... you must be right. Good night.

Barbara Cochran, MFA Mar 4, 2009:

Disagree with you, Juan. "Highwayman" is indeed a historical term to indicate this kind of robber, according to my source, as I indicated below.

Juan Jacob Mar 4, 2009:

I don't understand why all the noise about it. Bandit, outlaw, brigand, bandolero are all all right. I don't like highwayman, though. (No highways on that time !). Just a point: bandolero comes from banda, so, literaly, he's a gangster.

Kathryn Litherland Mar 4, 2009:

highway robbery I think that conceivably this sort of banditry (highway robbery) did essentially come to an end in general in the early 20th century as motorized transportation gradually replaced the slower modes of travel--though Spanish Wikipedia also has this to say about Spain in particular:

"El fin del bandolerismo andaluz se dio a fines del siglo XIX, con las medidas adoptadas por el gobernador civil de Córdoba (con ciertos poderes sobre Sevilla y Málaga) Julián Zugasti y Sáenz a partir de 1870 (véase su El bandolerismo: Estudio social y memorias históricas, 1876-1880), y en los primeros años del XX, en parte debido a la aparición del telégrafo y el ferrocarril y a la presión que sobre ellos ejerció la Guardia Civil mediante una demasiado amplia interpretación de la Ley de fugas."

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolero#El_bandolerismo_en_Es...

Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

This is a text from Spain Geographical clues: Castilla-La Mancha, Sierra de Alcaraz, etc.

Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

El Pernales vivió al principio del siglo XX creo. Quizás cuando nuestros amigo españoles vuelvan a trabajar mañana nos puedan elucidar esta cuestión.

Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

Context ¡Me han contado que en Castilla-La Mancha…
… hay un lugar llamado Cueva de los Chorros, en Riópar, donde hace mucho tiempo se escondía el último bandolero, El Pernales, en cuevas ocultas por las
cascadas del río Mundo!

Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

We still have bandits and outlaws. What don't we have anymore?

Clayton Causey (asker) Mar 4, 2009:

Context He's called "el último bandolero" à la "The Last Mohican". The last of his kind.