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What Drunken Mistake led to the Downfall of the James-Younger Gang?
Oh, this is going to be a fun one. You may already know the answer, but not the version I am going to tell. (You know, the one and only true version, via Kingman.)
Get ready to learn the truth about the Battle of Northfield on September 7, 1876 when the James-Younger Gang went face-to-face with the Townsmen of Northfield.
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By the end of the nineteenth century the old ways of outlawry in the West were slowly dying out. The James-Younger Gang, the Daltons, Doolins, and the rest had all their day in the sun and had crossed over the divide. Before the curtain came down the last of the great outlaw gangs would ride outlaw trail. The popularly-known name “Wild Bunch,” was applied the Pinkerton Detective Agency in the early 1900s after the gang was broken up. In their heyday they were known as the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
Actually, there were several Hole in the Wall gangs that took their name from an impregnable outlaw sanctuary in central Wyoming. The best known of these bands of desperadoes was led by a good-natured, outlaw named Robert LeRoy Parker, better-known as Butch Cassidy.
The Old West in color: Buffalo Bill, Teddy Roosevelt and the gold rush are brought to life in fascinating restored photographs
A new book has brought the spirit of the Wild West back to life with more than 200 colourised photographs
The new book is called The Wild West in Color: A photographic Account of our Nation s Westward Expansion
Pictures in the book include that of Theodore Roosevelt in hunting gear and Belle Starr after her arrest