RARE BROADSIDE SEEKING
A NOTORIOUS MIXED-RACE HORSE THIEF
IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1868

A rare broadside offering a reward for a partially-blind, mixed-race horse thief who escaped his initial arrest in Anderson, South Carolina three years after the Civil War. Issued by prominent Anderson, South Carolina horse-thief-catcher and future politician John R. Cochran, this broadside reads in full:I will pay the above reward.....