Here’s gunplay, violence and crackling drama on a larger scale than any other robbery pulled by the James-Younger Gang. These firsthand accounts of the most ambitious yet foolhardy robbery in frontier history ricochets across the pages in a deadly reflection of that explosive fall day of September 7, 1876. We hear the voices of Lizzie May Heywood, the five-year-old daughter of slain bank bookkeeper Joseph Heywood, to Cole Younger and his brothers Jim and Bob to Frank and Jesse James and Ade


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