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Title: The border bandits : an authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and their bands of highwaymen : compiled from reliable sources only and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Buel, James W. (James William), 1849-1920
Subjects: James, Jesse, 1847-1882 James, Frank, 1844-1915
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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r five rushed to the front of the house. Jessethrew the door partly open and the light from thesnow made the men outside easy targets for his un-erring aim, while he was so hidden by the door anddarkness within that the attacking party could notfire with the least accuracy. In half the time it hastaken the reader to even scan this report three ofthe six men were lying dead in the snow and two oth-ers were desperately wounded, while the other fledin mortal terror. Suffering, as he was, from a very high fever, Jesselost no time in mounting his horse, and with a hur-ried good-bye, he again rode into the wilderness,leaving his mother and her family with the dead andwounded. It was a ghastly scene, there upon thewhite-shrouded ground, one man dead on the door-step, two others stiff and frozen in their own bloodwhich crimsoned the yard, while the groans from thewounded made the place more hideous. Dr. Sam-uels notified his nearest neighbor as soon as possible m U)U) m > men :a mnm TJ o z
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JESSE AND FRANK JAMES, 39 and with the assistance he secured, the two woundedmen were taken into the house and cared for, whilea lonely vigil over the dead was kept until morning.A large crowd collected at the homestead on thefollowing day and removed the bodies, while morethan fifty well mounted citizens went in pursuit ofthe youthful desperado, but after a weeks fruitlesssearch they returned to their homes and quiet againbrooded over the distressed neighborhood. PLUNDERING A KENTUCKY BANK. The bloody record of the James Boys had beenalmost forgotton, for they had not been seen in Claycounty for many months and no specially recklessdeeds had been committed to bring back a remem-brance of them ; when, suddenly, the town of Rus-sellville, Kentucky, was thrown into a greater excite-ment than it had ever before experienced. TheJames Boys had paid the place a visit and left a sou-venir of their desperate valor. On the ^oth ofMarch, 1868, Jesse James, accompanied by fourcomrades, George Sh

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