. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. d in a west-erly direction toward Kilkenny, a post town and rail-v/ay station in Le Sueur county. They were nowavoiding the towns and traveled highways, andkeeping in the forest, and traveling through thefarms. All the crossing places on the streams wereguarded by armed citizens. The guards at the fordon French creek became alarmed at the approach ofthe bandits and fled, so that they met no resistanceat the crossing place. They remained one night forrest in a large forest near Kil
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. d in a west-erly direction toward Kilkenny, a post town and rail-v/ay station in Le Sueur county. They were nowavoiding the towns and traveled highways, andkeeping in the forest, and traveling through thefarms. All the crossing places on the streams wereguarded by armed citizens. The guards at the fordon French creek became alarmed at the approach ofthe bandits and fled, so that they met no resistanceat the crossing place. They remained one night forrest in a large forest near Kilkenny. The nextmorning tliey crossed the ford at Little pressed on toward the west. The route was 272 FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. beset with difficulties and dangers for them. Theywere anxious to reach the borderland, the frontierregion, where men are few and wild. There was no rest for them. It was at len£:thnecessary for them to abandon their horses. Theyhad camped in the depths of a great forest. Theofficials had taken to the by-paths and scoured thewoods in search of them. Lcavino-their horses and. Place of the Last Conference before Northfield. some of their heavier clothing, they trudged on foot,skulking among the thickets. Their progress wasslow. One day they camped on a sort of a penin-sula, about half a mile from a church. They werenow thoroughly exhausted. Their diet had beengreen oorn, potatoes and watermelons for severaldays, and they had been constantly on the move. THE ATTACK AT NORTHFIELD. 273 Here a stray calf came along and they shot it in thehead, but the calf did not fall, on the contrary it ranaway. A small pig passed by their camp, and oneof them shot him in the head. But the pig refusedto succumb, and ran away. After leaving their isolated camp in the evening,foot-sore and worn out by reason of the anxiety andfatigue, they pushed forward in a more southerly di-rection, leaving Cleveland and the forest where theyhad abandoned their horses to the rig
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