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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...ears that were listening, putting this and tlmt together by an act of cogitatiou, concluded that Hobbs Kerry knew ahout the Roeky Cut business. It was not a mistake. The deteetives pulled" Kerry, and when he had time to retleet, he unfolded his mind, and told of his friends and their ride at night. lle proved to be U a good peaeher," as the police say, and whatever may be the slight inconsistencies osif his narrative of the Ottervillo affnir, the events at Northfield, Minnesota, a few months later, confirm the truthfulness of Hobbs Kerry's story in all the main particulars. Of course the James Boys and their friends were swift to deaounce Hobb' Kerry as a fraud, and his A 'IVINTXEN THOUSAND DOLLAR HAUL. 25? stories of the midnight ride and the tiuring of the " danger signal " before the train, as pure fabricatlons of a 'disensed or wicked brain. Meanwhile, the Jamescs and Youngers had not gone far away. The former found friends and asafe retreat in the eastern part of Jaekson county, and the latter retired to St. Clair county, where they rested in contentment for a season. The Jameses have friends yet in a certain ncigliborhood in that seetion of Jaekson county-men and women-who, despite their known character, and the ediet of oatlawry against them, would receive them into their houses and treat them not only with ordinary hospitslity, but with marked consideration. CIlAIVPER XXXVIl. IN MINNESOTIL-Thc' bandits seek a new fieldFrank ames and the Younger llmthcrs-Bill Chadwe l, Miller and Pins-The long ride. Hrrnsaro the brigands, led by the Jameses and the Youngers, had only committed outrages in those countries with the physical features of which they were well tlequainttzd. They had ridden through Missouri, ...
Those who knew them during the days of their childhood and youth, differ widely in opinion concerning the character of the promise they gave of their future course in life. Some say they were "nice, well behaved boys," others that "they were about like other boys," and yet another class say that they were "bad boys, very bad boys from the beginning." There is no doubt that they were sometimes "a little wild," as their best friends admit. We have accounts of some of their childish actions which indicate that even in early life they manifested a decided inclination to be malicious, not to say heartless and cruel. The step-father of the boys seems to be a man of amiable disposition, and his government over the children was far from being after the order of the traditional step-father. The consequence was Frank and Jesse advanced to the years of maturity without any of those healthful, restraining influences which moralists assure us are essential to the proper development of the higher qualities of manhood. Be that as it may, we have been assured by persons of the highest respectability, who were acquainted with them long before the commencement of the war between the States, that "they were their own masters" at a very early age, save only when their strong-willed mother asserted her prerogative to dominate over them, which, by the way, she seldom did. Among the boys of the neighborhood they were not without friends. But among them, they were leaders. Aside from a willingness on the part of other boys to accept such leadership, the Jameses were exceedingly disagreeable, and generally attempted to enforce a due recognition of their superiority. Such were the great outlaws as boys.
A biography of the James Brothers, the Noted Western Outlaws, published in 1880 before Jesse's death.