Cole Younger Quotes

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• Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn…
• I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
• I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been…
• I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
• I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with…
• I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section…
• I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they…
• Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.
• The world may believe as it pleases.
• They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

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