On the road to meet their Waterloo at Northfield, Minnesota, Cole Younger met some children at the little town of St. Peter, north of Mankato who were fascinated by the good-looking horse he was riding. He gave a little six-year-old girl a ride and afterwards smiled and said to her, “I hope you will always remember me.”
She replied, “I will always be your friend.”
The little girl’s name was Horace Greeley Perry. Her father was a local newspaperman who admired the famous publisher
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