Definition of "shebang"

Their shebang enclosures of bushes.

1862 December, Walt Whitman, Journal

They say that old pirate, Kingfisher Culpepper, had a stock of the real thing from Robertson County laid in his shebang on the Marsh just before he died.

1889, Bret Harte, The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh

Along all the roads on the reservation to all the mines, at the crossing of every stream or fresh-water spring, and near the principal Indian villages, an inn or shebang is established, ostensibly for the entertainment of travellers, but almost universally used as a den for supplying liquor to Indians."

1862 June 30, Charles Hutchins, Letter G 10, Report of the Secretary of the Interior‎

On the third the whole "chebang" was removed [...]

1863, James Bryan, A Short Account of the "Mary Ann" Hospital, Grand Gulf, Miss.‎

I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.

1869, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), letter to publisher

"Before I'd share anything with you," he said bitterly, "I’d lose the whole shebang."

1934, Robert E. Howard, Sluggers on the Beach

[…] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”

1871, December 14, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), “Roughing It” (lecture), printed in Fred W. Lorch, “Mark Twain’s Lecture from Roughing it”, in American Literature, volume 22, number 3 (November 1950), pages 305