The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself by
Cole Younger

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no
restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under
the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or
online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license

Title: The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself

Author: Cole Younger

Release Date: February 12, 2008 [Ebook #24585]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF COLE YOUNGER, BY HIMSELF***

[Illustration: Cole Younger]

Cole Younger

The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself

Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, his
Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield
Raid Ever Published
By Cole Younger

Chicago
The Henneberry Company

1903

CONTENTS

Why This Book Is Here
1. Boyhood Days
2. The Dark and Bloody Ground
3. Driven from Home
4. The Trap That Failed
5. Vengeance Indeed
6. In the Enemy's Lines
7. Lone Jack
8. A Foul Crime
9. How Elkins Escaped
10. A Price on My Head
11. Betrayed
12. Quantrell on War
13. The Palmyra Butchery
14. Lawrence
15. Chasing Cotton Thieves
16. A Clash with Apaches
17. The Edicts of Outlawry
18. Not All Black
19. A Duel and an Auction
20. Laurels Unsought
21. The Truth about John Younger
22. Amnesty Bill Fails
23. Belle Starr
24. "Captain Dykes"
25. Eluding the Police
26. Ben Butler's Money
27. Horace Greeley Perry
28. The Northfield Raid
29. A Chase to the Death
30. To Prison for Life
31. Some Private History
32. Lost--Twenty-five Years
33. The Star of Hope
34. On Parole
35. Jim Gives It Up
36. Free Again
37. The Wild West
38. What My Life Has Taught Me
An Afterward

ILLUSTRATIONS

Cole Younger
Nannie Harris and Charity Kerr
John Jarrette
William Clarke Quantrell
William Gregg
Jim Younger
Jesse James (top) and Frank James (bottom)
John Younger
Bob Younger
Illustration: Wild West Show advertisement

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