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Collecting American Outlaws

by | Aug 8, 2009 | True Westerners

Wilbur Zink has preserved the Younger Gang’s history in more ways than one.
Growing up in Missouri in the 1930s, Wilbur Zink loved listening to family legends as he sat at the kitchen table. The one that most impressed him was the story of his grandfather, David Crowder, who was a teenager when the Pinkertons killed John Younger in 1874. A shopkeeper’s son in Roscoe, Missouri, Crowder stood guard over the body. Guarding


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