He's our local desperado.

Ask Dick McGill, eh, Jake?
He dared the shotgun the night they run that claim-jumper off.

I know a feller that was there, and seen it--when he wa'n't seared blind.

Take Jake." 2 The Bunker gang was a group of bandits that had their headquarters in the timber along the Iowa River near Eldora.

They were afterward caught--some of them--and treated very badly by the officers who started to Iowa City with them.