How accurate is the concept of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters being placed in public for any prospective bounty hunter to take up the hunt? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

How accurate is the concept of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters being placed in public for any prospective bounty hunter to take up the hunt?

by JSFlaye

From American history or otherwise.

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Check these old answers from /u/kingconani while you wait.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1v7v10/were_bounty_hunters_around_in_the_wild_west_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3xl3bn/when_was_the_last_issuance_of_a_wanted_dead_or/