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
Table of Contents
Chapter II The Dark and Bloody Ground
Chapter IV The Trap That Failed
Chapter VI In the Enemy's Lines
Chapter XIII The Palmyra Butchery
Chapter XV Chasing Cotton Thieves
Chapter XVI A Clash with Apaches
Chapter XVII The Edicts of Outlawry
Chapter XIX A Duel and an Auction
Chapter XXI The Truth about John Younger
Chapter XXII Amnesty Bill Fails
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 XXXVIII What My Life Has Taught Me
Why This Book Is Here
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