The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood: A Confederate Brotherhood - Softcover

Brant, Marley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568330456 ISBN 13: 9781568330457

Publisher: Madison Books, 1995

Synopsis

A character study of the men, the myths and the legends of the Outlaw Youngers, one of the most notorious gangs in the Wild West.

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From the Back Cover:

This biographical history tells the story of an American family in conflict and four brothers' attempts to regain the prestigious position their family once held. Loaded with never-before-published photos and little-known facts, this probing character study examines the men, the myths, and the legends of the Outlaw Youngers. The Youngers - Bob, Cole, Jim, and John - tested the boundaries of the violent and turbulent post-Civil War society in which they lived. The author investigates events from the Border and Civil Wars, details of the Youngers' attempts at legitimate ranching in Texas, and the frequent and often brutal murders and robberies. Using never-before-published accounts from Jim and Bob Younger, the author presents a new theory regarding the James-Younger gang and the actual Younger involvement - a theory which opposes the one held for over 100 years. She also offers insights into the Northfield robbery and gives reasons why the Youngers' parole was delayed. Meticulous research exposes the controversial truth about the Youngers and refutes the folklore that surrounds the infamous outlaw brothers.

From Publishers Weekly:

First-time author Brant, a Georgia TV writer and producer, claims to have spent more than two decades researching the four Younger brothers--Bob, Cole, Jim and John--ex-Confederate Army guerrillas whose life of crime ended with the famous Northfield, Minn., raid of 1876 in which Bob, Jim and Cole were captured. Affluent, intelligent sons of a respected Missouri family, the foursome were, in Brant's compassionate view, unable to distinguish between wartime and peacetime conduct. She pores over their family tree, and examines the Missouri-Kansas border war's effects on the Youngers. She also traces their involvement with the Frank and Jesse James gang and the lengthy incarcerations of charismatic Cole Younger, who received a pardon in 1903 and died in 1916, and his bookish, brilliant brother Jim, who was paroled in 1901 and committed suicide the following year. Brant's dedication notwithstanding, she proves unable to siftable to sift the significant from the trivial, so that the Younger brothers emerge from her biography as inscrutable as ever. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Madison Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568330456
• ISBN 13: 9781568330457
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408