Cole Younger, also known as Thomas Coleman Younger, was an outlaw who robbed banks and trains accompanied by his gang and Frank and Jesse James. It was called the James-Younger gang. He was born on January 15, 1844, and died in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, on March 21, 1916. Cole Younger’s family was quite large, as he was the seventh of fourteen children. His dad was Henry Washington Younger, and his mom was Bersheba Leighton Fristoe. His brothers, Jim, John, and Bob were also outlaws who joined him on his robberies. He was the oldest of the four thieves. His father was a Union supporter in the Civil war, but he was shot anyway by a Union soldier, after Confederates started wrecking Missouri. His mom’s house was burned down, too. Cole …show more content…
It is also the one where he was caught. It was bad for the townspeople and the gang, as both groups were killed or injured. There were eight outlaws left in the gang, and three of them went inside to rob the bank, while Cole and four more provided cover and kept watch on the street. Everything went wrong as soon as someone hit the alarm, and all the townspeople ran for their guns. They began to fire from behind walls, killing two gang members and badly injuring Bob Younger. One other member escaped and rode off. The gang killed two people, and ran away empty-handed, the robbery a complete failure. Hundreds of people from Minnesota chased them, and the gang split up. The James brothers actually did make it back to Missouri, but the Youngers did not. Them and Charlie Pitts, another gang member, waged war with a posse. Charlie was killed, and all three Youngers were wounded and captured. They were sentenced to life in prison in 1876. I think it’s the worst, because it was the only crime I could find where innocent people were killed. Cole Younger did not die in a gun battle or in prison, as he was released in 1901. Bob Younger died in 1889 of tuberculosis, and Jim commited suicide in a hotel in 1902. Cole did not return to crime, and he wrote an autobiography making him look like a Confederate hero more than a criminal (of course he did.) He also toured the south,
During this time, Clyde and his brother Buck got arrested and spent a few days in jail. Later, Bonnie began working in a restaurant in town. Buck and Clyde were then arrested for robbery and were released on bail, and then Bonnie and Clyde met. Clyde got arrested again, and Bonnie snuck in a gun, letting Clyde use it to escape. Clyde got arrested and locked into Eastham, where he committed his first murder.
Cole Matthews, the protagonist of the book was a teenage delinquent who got in trouble for beating up Peter Driscal. He had been to drug counseling and anger therapy session. He had been to many police stations and detention centers. Even though he had gone through all sorts of treatments, he still struggles to calm his mind and make the right choices. Cole always looked at the bad side and would get angry for small, unimportant things.
Jefferson’s Sons is about Thomas Jefferson and his seven children he had with his slave Sally Hemmings. The whole story talks about how Marriet, Beverly, Madison, and Eston having to live their whole lives a big secret. Having a father with such power did afford them the privilege of new shoes, clothes, even violin lessons. The book focuses on the complications they went through as kids and leads into them leaving at the age of twenty one.
Bonnie and Clyde were shot and killed immediately. They were shot multiple times on May 23, 1934. They tried driving away but were shot and killed. Clyde was wanted by the police, for many reasons (Bonnie and Clyde). “Barrow was suspected of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and state charges of kidnapping”(McGasko).
Young Robert “Butch” admired this rancher so much, he used “Cassidy” as a last name for his nickname “Butch”. Between 1800 and 1887, Butch’s first crime was committed, which was stealing a pair of jeans from a closed store. He left an IOU for the owner because he intended to come back to pay for the jeans.
Branna Keeler Charlie Smith: Oral History Interview Elmer Sparks interviews Charlie Smith, in Bartow, Florida on March 17, 1975. The context of the article is built around Sparks desire to hear the life experiences of slave, Charlie Smith. However, Sparks’ real purpose is to determine how old Charlie Smith really is at the time of the interview. I chose to do this interview because I am also taking U.S. History on-line, currently we are studying slavery.
Unlike most criminals Jesse was not hailed from a life of crime but instead he was son of Baptist minister Reverend Robert James, born in Clay County, Missouri on September 5, 1847 an educated man in a family of farmers. The James family farm was viciously attacked
A man known as brother, father, soldier, outlaw, avenger of the poor; a man known as Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri and assassinated only miles away in St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3, 1882 (Jesse James, Umsystem.edu). He was as notorious as the president was famous, but even with hundreds hoping for the bounty on his head, James was able to evade officials and remain a mystery. This man “was literally a legend” (Stiles, prologue). His crimes’ profit adds up to an estimated amount of $200,000 (Jesse James Biography, Biography.com), which today could be over 3 million dollars. The assassination of Jesse James is justified because he was not the hero people thought him to be and had murdered many who stood
In this day in age there are many schools and organizations named after the great General Sam Houston, but very few people have heard of what his slaves did for him and the legacy they left. Joshua Houston, one of the slaves owned by General Sam Houston, played a crucial part in the way Texas is today; he was an influential politician, a supporter of equal rights for all, and a church pacesetter. Born in 1822 and raised on a plantation near Marion, Alabama, Joshua Houston worked as a slave for Temple Lea until Lea died in 1834 (Littlejohn and Bowman). Afterwards, Joshua Houston was passed down to Margaret Lea, Temple’s daughter (Littlejohn and Bowman). Margaret Lea, not long after she inherited Joshua Houston, moved to Texas to be
But in all The Barrow Gang had killed 13 people. While the gang was on the run they had robbed the total of 15 banks in all. From 1931 to 1935 the media had gave a lot of attention to Bonnie and Clyde making them famous for their crime. During the 1930’s Bonnie and Clyde were America's most famous outlaws, and still are one of the greatest crime partners in history. “Clyde might have been a criminal and a killer but he was always close to his
After the murder the gang ran to Minneapolis, Minnesota. They often only committed crimes in pairs of twos or threes in different places to avoid getting caught by making it hard for the authorities to track them
The Confused History of Robert Smalls A surplus of knowledge is found throughout a device that most people use throughout their daily routine. The smart phone or any other mobile devices use app to access the internet. The internet contain vast amounts of information and knowledge more than some libraries. However with all this information, not all the information gathered from these sources are true or factual.
The relationships in Cole’s life all had a different impact on him but specifically his relationship with Peter affected him a lot. Especially the part of the book when Cole found out that Peter told on him. “‘You’re a dead man,’ he warned... He laughed when he saw fear in Peter’s eyes”(7-8). This shows the relationship at the beginning of the book and clearly it wasn’t good.
On July 18, 1901 fourteen year old Willie Nickell was found dead. He had been shot near his family's homestead in Cheyenne Wyoming. The gunshot was located on his back ,His murder, being Thomas Horn Jr. also known as “Tom Horn” . Tom was born November 21 of 1860 in Scotland County, Missouri. His parents were Thomas S. Horn and Mary Ann Maricha Horn they raised all eleven of Tom's siblings not including himself but only eight in total survived their childhood.
In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, the author Sherman Alexie presents the diverse characteristics between two boys, Victor and Thomas. Victor and Thomas used to be childhood friends. That is until Victor developed the view that others would see Thomas as. Victor thought of Thomas as “the crazy storyteller who talked to dogs and cars, who listened to the wind and pine trees” (Alexie 811). Thomas was his own person who did not let other people’s opinions about him change the person he was.