Notorious frontier outlaws can appear indistinguishable from fashionable gentlemen.

Evidence

In the afternoon of yesterday a gentleman came who I thought was another stranger, strikingly handsome, well dressed, and barely forty, with sixteen shining gold curls falling down his collar; he walked in, and it was only after a careful second look that I recognized in our visitor the redoubtable “desperado.” — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 259

Categorization

• FICTION: A wanted man disguised by beauty and tailoring rather than a mask — a precise, reusable twist for a Western or historical story.
• CANDY: Easily retold: the woman traveler mistakes the territory’s most feared desperado for an overdressed dandy with sixteen gold ringlets.