Bullets And Bounty: From Frontier Justice to Digital Retribution
The Western Frontier: From Saloon Showdowns to Modern Bounty Systems a. Frontier justice emerged from a vacuum—lawless territories demanded swift, personal retribution where formal courts were absent. In the 19th-century American West, bounty systems evolved as informal economies of vengeance: hunters were paid to capture or kill outlaws, turning violence into a sanctioned act. This…