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Author : Marley Brant
Release : 1992
Genre : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Book Synopsis The Outlaw Youngers by : Marley Brant
Download or read book The Outlaw Youngers written by Marley Brant. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the men, the myths, and the legends of post-Civil War Younger family of outlaws.
Author : Marley Brant
Release : 2021-06-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Outlaw Youngers by : Marley Brant
Download or read book The Outlaw Youngers written by Marley Brant. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Youngers—Bob, Cole, Jim, and John—tested the boundaries of the violent and turbulent post-Civil War society in which they lived. The author investigates the events from the Border and Civil Wars which forged their characters, their intricate relationships, the innovative train and bank robberies in which they participated, and their decades-long fight for freedom. Brant’s extensive research includes unpublished accounts from family members, the families of their enemies and victims, and hundreds of revealing historical documents. The story of the Youngers as more than the folklore figures they have grown to be demonstrates that often the truth is more fascinating than the fiction.
Author : Marley Brant
Release : 1997
Genre : Outlaws
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Book Rating : 361/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Outlaws by : Marley Brant
Download or read book Outlaws written by Marley Brant. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sifts through the myths surrounding Jesse James and his cohorts-in-crime to document their real-life adventures.
Author : Homer Croy
Release : 1999-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Cole Younger by : Homer Croy
Download or read book Cole Younger written by Homer Croy. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence dictated the daily rhythms of Cole Younger?s life. During the Civil War he was selected to join Quantrill?s Raiders because he owned his own revolver. His participation in the brutal 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas, drove him and other guerrillas into hiding as Union troops sought to punish the perpetrators of atrocities including the murder of women and children. Younger met up with Jesse James in 1866. The James and Younger families cooperated in a series of bank and train robberies over the next decade that led to a feeling of invincibility. That feeling came to an end in Northfield, Minnesota, when local citizens killed two of the gang and wounded most of the others. Cole and his younger brothers were captured, tried, and sentenced to life in the Minnesota State Penitentiary. But even a life sentence could not keep Younger in prison. Despite a career that included thirty wounds, battles with Pinkerton detectives and Yankees, an affair with outlaw Belle Starr, and a near-fatal confrontation with Jesse James, Cole Younger survived to become a living legend in his home state of Missouri. He died peacefully, a free man.
Author : J. A. Dacus
Release : 2017-04-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The James and Younger Brothers by : J. A. Dacus
Download or read book The James and Younger Brothers written by J. A. Dacus. This book was released on 2017-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast guns and hold-ups--the story of the James and Younger boys The Wild West frontier of the United States of America is the place of modern legends, though their origins mostly come from a comparatively short period of time following the American Civil War during the westward expansion of 'Manifest Destiny' to the dawn of modernism in the late 19th century. Nevertheless, the names heroes and villains from this era immediately caught the public imagination, and have remained with us thanks to numerous books, films and television series' featuring them. Among these outlaws, there were few more notorious than the James-Younger Gang. The gang hailed from Missouri, a bloody battleground with Kansas during the civil war, wracked by the deprivations of Union Jayhawkers and Confederate Bushwackers. It was from this latter partisan group that the James-Younger outlaw alliance grew. The end of the war brought hard times for these men, and the transition to gun-slinging, criminal killers seemed inevitable. The gang's membership changed over the years, but its notable members were, of course, brothers Cole, Jim, John and Bob Younger and the James brothers, Frank and the infamous Jesse. The gang robbed trains, stagecoaches and banks in Missouri, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, Kansas and West Virginia between 1868 and Jesse James's death in 1882--when he was shot in the back by Robert Ford. This is the story of these violent men and their troubled times. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
