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| Original Title: | 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 ... Raid Ever Published (Borealis Books) ASIN B002MGW0X0 |
| Edition Language: | English |
Cole Younger
Kindle Edition | Pages: 135 pages Rating: 3.46 | 171 Users | 12 Reviews
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| Title | : | Story Of Cole Younger: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla C (Borealis Books) |
| Author | : | Cole Younger |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 135 pages |
| Published | : | August 21st 2009 by Minnesota Historical Society Press (first published October 3rd 1903) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Westerns. History. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Classics. Memoir |
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Born near Lee's Summit, Missouri, Thomas Coleman ("Cole") Younger (1844-1916) rode with William Clarke Quantrill's Confederate raiders during the Civil War, participating in many daring and bloody exploits, including the infamous Lawrence, Kansas, massacre of 1863. Following the war, Younger continued his celebrated career as a desperado, robbing banks and trains with Jesse James and other members of the James-Younger gang. A fateful attempt in 1876 on the Northfield, Minnesota, bank sent Cole to the state prison in Stillwater, Minnesota for decades. There he became a model resident, helping both to protect women convicts during a fire and found the Prison Mirror, a newspaper intended to shed "a ray of light upon the lives of those behind the bars." Paroled in 1901, Younger successfully sought a pardon, operated a Wild West show with his old comrade Frank James, and lectured on "What My Life Has Taught Me."Rating Based On Books Story Of Cole Younger: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla C (Borealis Books)
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Good book. I enjoyed reading it a lot.this is the best (auto) biography I've ever read.
At first it was a bit confusing as he was jumping back and forth in time and sometimes took up the same incident more than once, but then i got into the story and it was very different from what I had heard or read. According to him there was no James-Younger band, he only met Jesse James 2 times and almost got into a fight with him the last time. The documents and testimonies he put forth is very interesting and gives him alibi for a lot of the robberies that he was accused of. And the last 2
I expected much more mention of the James brothers in a book written by a "Survivor of the Jesse James Gang".I did not think this book was very well written and, after reading, question how open the author really was about his life. (My opinion only!)
BantitsThere was a time when I worked in a prison. Cole Younger gives a pretty good description and Metaphysical interpretation of what it is to be an inmate. Also provides some insight into the Kansas vs Missouri contention. As in many auto bios, he does his best to put his best foot foteward.
2.5 stars. Fascinating from a historical stand point but sort of a dull read.I give this one three stars, because I feel it was full of lies. I grew up in Lee's Summit, MO, where Cole Younger was from. We learned about him in school. I find it hard to believe that he committed only one robbery and it happened to be the one where he was caught. We'll never truly know, but he was quite boastful about his life, when he was clearly a criminal. I guess when you write a book about your life, you can write whatever you want. He certainly tooted his own horn, a lot. Maybe he
This was actually surprisingly well written. Not an action story, but truly intriguing anyway. Better than any other 'factual' book about Jesse James (because most of those are written by super dry historians)
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