If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.”
A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant sidebar on the Great Northfield Bank Robbery that he’d recently discovered. As the James Younger gang was heading towards a rendezvous with destiny they rode through the little town of St. Peter, north of Mankato. Cole Younger liked kids and had become

True West September 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- Fire in the Hole!
- Adventures in the Apache Country
- Americas First “Astronauts”
- Bodie, California
- A Not So Heroic End
- Joe Mundy Rides Again
- Cap Mossman: Boss of the Hashknife
- Like Ducks to Water
- Sneak Attack on the James Farm
- Remington’s Last Six-guns
- Riding for the Hashknife
- Bank Robbery at Telluride
- How did Frontier Ladies Curl their Hair?
- Arab Berbers Ride Hard
- I Will Always Be Your Friend
- Viva L’ouest!
- A Hero on his Last Run
- A Dandy of a Man
- John Slaughter and the San Bernardino Ranch
- The Youngers of Missouri: Part Two
- The Youngers of Missouri: First Blood
Departments
- Did Old West Saloons Have Refrigeration?
- What History Has Taught Me: Erik J. Wright
- Fort Smith, Arkansas: Where the Old West Begins
- What was Paladin’s first name on Have Gun-Will Travel?
- Western Events for September 2018
- Mexican Marvels
- Pursuing Outlaw Sam Bass
- How Tough was Longhorn Meat?
- The Youngest Prisoner
- Did “Big Nose Kate” Carry a Gun?
- History in Ink
- Why did Cavalrymen Wear their Pistols with the butts Forward?
- The Mother Lode Spirit
- Upping the Ante