. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ond ColoradoCavalry, to capture all the irregular Confederatesfound in the State of Missouri. Frank had reachedthe Independence and Harrisonville road at a pointabout midway between the two towns. As he passedthrough the country he ascertained that a force ofinfantry and cavalry were at a house some milesaway from the road. How many there were in thisdetachment he could not learn. But he resolved toinvestigate. Taldng a neighborhood path, not muchtraveled, he road toward the Feder
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ond ColoradoCavalry, to capture all the irregular Confederatesfound in the State of Missouri. Frank had reachedthe Independence and Harrisonville road at a pointabout midway between the two towns. As he passedthrough the country he ascertained that a force ofinfantry and cavalry were at a house some milesaway from the road. How many there were in thisdetachment he could not learn. But he resolved toinvestigate. Taldng a neighborhood path, not muchtraveled, he road toward the Federal the roadside was a lonely cabin, now uninhab-ited, as he believed. He examined the indications,and rode on. At the cabin the road made a shortturn. When Frank turned around the corner of theold cabin, two militiamen presented their musketsand commanded him to halt. In an instant the readypistol was snatched from its place hy the Guerrilla,and even before the militiaman could fire, the bulletfrom Franks pistol had penetrated his brain, and hefell in the agonic of death to the earth. At the ill. 54 FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. very instant of firing, Frank put spurs to his horseand galloped away, turning and firing at the remain-ing guard as he did so, and wounding him unto deathjust as he was in the act of firing at the daring bullet from the militiamans gun whistled withinan inch of Frank James ear as it sped on its harm-less mission. The picket post where the firing tookplace was within a few hundred yards of a campwhere a hundred militiamen, and half that numberof cavalrymen, who rode good horses, were takingtheir dinners. Frank, surmising that the two soldierswith whom he had the combat were on guard dutyclose to camp, and that an alarm and pursuit wouldfollow, rode with all speed toward the Guerrillacamp. He was pursued, as he expected, but heeasily eluded the Coloradoans. In August—it was the 12th day of that month,1864, that Jesse and Frank particip
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