You should independently analyze and judge, any hesitation may bring you into the trap of the outlaws.
The sheriff said posse could head off the outlaws at the pass.
But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.
Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
Previously, the new vernacular writers were viewed a bit like outlaws, hovering on the edge of a town that was run by a cabal.