According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?
Am I missing something?
I don’t think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.
That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.
Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.
They just don’t , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.
Cool idea, except the pirates wouldn’t be part of it cuz the era you’re calling the “old west” didn’t start in 1800 - westward expansion was in its early beginnings then. The classic era of gunslingers and saloons and stuff was really a very brief period between the Civil War and the 1890s. Another forgotten bit of trivia about that time is that around 25% of cowboys then were black.
There were gentleman thieves in the west too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)
There’s a holodeck episode in there somewhere
I keep saying I’m going to play a PC based on Kingo Nonaka.
But in my version he would have also briefly been a Pacific ocean pirate during his journey from Japan to Mexico.
