The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
Cole YoungerI never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
Cole YoungerJoe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
Cole YoungerI have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
Cole Younger