The Story of Cole Younger (Civil War Memoir). Thomas Coleman Younger

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       Thomas Coleman Younger

      The Story of Cole Younger

      (Civil War Memoir)

      Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw

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      2019 OK Publishing

      EAN 4057664559159

       Why This Book Is Here

       Chapter I Boyhood Days

       Chapter II The Dark and Bloody Ground

       Chapter III Driven from Home

       Chapter IV The Trap That Failed

       Chapter V Vengeance Indeed

       Chapter VI In the Enemy's Lines

       Chapter VII Lone Jack

       Chapter VIII A Foul Crime

       Chapter IX How Elkins Escaped

       Chapter X A Price on My Head

       Chapter XI Betrayed

       Chapter XII Quantrell on War

       Chapter XIII The Palmyra Butchery

       Chapter XIV Lawrence

       Chapter XV Chasing Cotton Thieves

       Chapter XVI A Clash with Apaches

       Chapter XVII The Edicts of Outlawry

       Chapter XVIII Not All Black

       Chapter XIX A Duel and an Auction

       Chapter XX Laurels Unsought

       Chapter XXI The Truth about John Younger

       Chapter XXII Amnesty Bill Fails

       Chapter XXIII Belle Starr

       Chapter XXIV “Captain Dykes”�

       Chapter XXV Eluding the Police

       Chapter XXVI Ben Butler's Money

       Chapter XXVII Horace Greeley Perry

       Chapter XVIII The Northfield Raid

       Chapter XXIX A Chase to the Death

       Chapter XXX To Prison for Life

       Chapter XXXI Some Private History

       Chapter XXII Lost — Twenty-five Years

       Chapter XXXIII The Star of Hope

       Chapter XXXIV On Parole

       Chapter XXXV Jim Gives It Up

       Chapter XXXVI Free Again

       Chapter XXXVII The Wild West

       Chapter XXXVIII What My Life Has Taught Me

       An Afterward

      

Cole Younger

      Why This Book Is Here

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      Many may wonder why an old “guerrilla” should feel called upon at this late day to rehearse the story of his life. On the eve of sixty, I come out into the world to find a hundred or more of books, of greater or less pretensions, purporting to be a history of “The Lives of the Younger Brothers,” but which are all nothing more nor less than a lot of sensational recitals, with which the Younger brothers never had the least association. One publishing house alone is selling sixty varieties of these books, and I venture to say that in the whole lot there could not be found six pages of truth. The stage, too, has its lurid dramas in which we are painted in devilish blackness.

      It is therefore my purpose to give an authentic and absolutely correct history of the lives of the “Younger Brothers,” in order that I may, if possible, counteract in some measure at least, the harm that has been done my brothers and myself, by the blood and thunder accounts of misdeeds, with which relentless sensationalists have charged us, but which have not even the suggestion of truth about them, though doubtless they have had everything to do with coloring public opinion.

      In this account I propose to set out the little good that was


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