If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” Besides being a “good man to ride the river with,” he had many good qualities compared to the typical outlaw of his day.
A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant sidebar about Cole that he’d recently discovered.
As the gang was riding towards Northfield in September, 1876 for their rend
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