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 (14802929313)

Frank James combat with three Mexicans

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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horses which werehitched in the woods nearby, but just before reachingthem three powerful Mexicans suddenly sprang uponFrank James, who was a little in the rear, and at-tempted to bind him with a stout cord which theythrew over his shoulders. Fortunately, in running hehad picked up a large bludgeon which lay in his path,and shaking himself loose from the grasp of his as-sailants he laid about him so briskly with this for-midable weapon that in a moment the three Mexi-cans lay stunned on the ground at his feet, thenhastily joining Jesse, who had already mounted andwas holding his horse for him, he sprang into thesaddle, and putting spurs to their restless steeds theyplunged boldly into the Rio Grande and swam tothe other side, while the Mexicans were riding aboutin every direction trying to find the bandits whomthey did not imagine would dare to take to the river.The boys made good their escape, but the woundsthey had received in the fight were of a most pain-21 so THE BORDER BANDITS.

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JESSE AND FRANK JAMES. 51 ful nature and required careful attention. Frankswas the most severe, and had not Jesse bandaged itwith the greatest skill the outlaw must have bled todeath before obtaining medical aid, for one of theveins in his neck had been severed. The two reachedConcepcion, a small town in Texas, about one hun-dred miles from Matamoras, where they remained incharge of a surgeon for nearly three months beforetheir wounds had healed sufficiently to permit tiiemto travel. PLUNDERING AN IOWA BANK. In the spring of 1871 Jesse and Frank James se-cretly returned to their haunts in Jackson county,Missouri, where they remained for some time arrang-ing for an expedition into Iowa. Their plans beingperfected, they, with five other bandits, startednorth, riding by night, until they reached Corydon,the bank in which place they had previously decidedto rob. At ten oclock in the morning the sevendesperadoes made a furious charge into the center ofthe town and commenced a fusilade of f

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