bushwhacker

He was a familiar figure along the Appalachian Trail and other paths, a wiry 5-foot-7 bushwhacker wearing his trademark mesh angler’s vest and toting a snake sack and a pole called a snake hook.

Again, why not tap into the comics’ legacy by bringing the likes of bad guys Finn Cooley, Bushwhacker or Jigsaw to life.

Jesse James’s exploits were cast as heroic by newspaperman and Confederate propagandist John Newman Edwards, who, in covering his exploits as a bushwhacker and beyond, made him a star, though one who descended into paranoia — well-placed as it happens.

He famously broke a streak by a bull named Bushwhacker, who had thrown riders 40 times in a row.

That was because he kept choosing Bushwhacker when he had the chance.