Outlaws of the old west train station
They were sentenced to life, but were paroled in 1901. Cole and his brothers Jim and Bob pled guilty to avoid the hangman’s noose. Luck ran out for the Younger boys on Septemduring a botched bank robbery. They robbed stagecoaches, trains, and banks in Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, and West Virginia. Cole and his brothers formed a gang with Jesse and Frank James. It is not for certain when he went into banditry, but the first time he was mentioned as a suspect was after the 1868 robbery of Nimrod Long & Co., a bank in Russellville, Kentucky. Cole was already a member of Quantrill’s Raiders but after the murder of his father, he joined the Confederate Army. Younger had given Walley a severe beating for making advances on his daughter (Cole’s sister). Her killer has never been identified.Ĭole Younger’s life was forever changed when his father was murdered by Union Captain Walley. She was shot in the back while riding home from the general store.
3, 1889, two days before she was to turn 41. They were released a year later and went right back into lawlessness. She married Sam Starr in 1880, and two years later, both of them were convicted of stealing horses. When she was unable to bribe the law into looking the other way, she would seduce them to get what she wanted.
After the loss of her husband, Belle made her living organizing and planning robberies, as well as fencing stolen goods. Jim was killed while trying to escape from the custody of a deputy sheriff who had arrested him for one such robbery. Along with his wife’s friends, the Jameses and Youngers, they planned and executed many daring heists. Jim Reed tried to live the honest life of a farmer, but when that didn’t pan out, he fell in with the Starrs, a Cherokee Indian family notorious for stealing horses. It wasn’t long before Maybelle was introduced to a life of crime and earned the nickname “The Bandit Queen.” In 1866, Belle married Jim Reed, a former Confederate Army guerrilla. When the outlaws of the James-Younger gang needed to hide out, they often stayed at the Shirley family farm. She grew up with Cole Younger and later befriended the James brothers. As a young lady, she attended the Carthage Female Academy where she excelled in all subjects and became an accomplished pianist. Myra Maybelle Shirley was born in Carthage, Missouri. He was wounded by Texas Rangers on the way to rob a small bank in Round Rock, and died two days later on his 27th birthday.
Bass and his gang robbed the Union Pacific gold train from San Francisco, netting over $60,000, which is to this day the largest single robbery of the Union Pacific. They set their sights on bigger prizes and turned to train robbery. After holding up seven stagecoaches, they didn’t make much money. A few months later, he and Collins went into another venture- stagecoach robbery. He and Collins wasted the money from the cattle drive on gambling in Deadwood. They were supposed to go back to Texas to pay off the owners of the herd, but instead they took the $8,000 profit for themselves. In 1876, Bass and a rough character named Joel Collins drove a herd of longhorns up north where the prices for cattle were higher. After one season, he decided he didn’t like it. His dream was to be a cowboy and he eventually made his way to Texas. After running away from the abusive uncle who raised him, he went to work in a sawmill in Mississippi.