Bill O'reilly's Legends And Lies
“hung over the small town of Gallatin, Missouri. “The city,” reported the Booneville Weekly Adventures, “was veiled from sight by the dense fog that prevailed, and an unusual stillness and quiet pervaded every quarter of the little city.” Out of that fog and into legend rode the outlaw brothers Jesse and Frank James.They dismounted and hitched their horses at the water trough in front of the Daviess County Savings Association. At twenty-six, Frank was four years older than Jesse; both brothers h...ad ridden hard through the Civil War and its aftermath. And they hadn’t forgotten for a bit what they’d seen and who had done them wrong. They intended to steal the money in this bank, no question about that, but that was not their main reason for being there. They had come to avenge the killing of a friend.The owner of the bank, former Union captain John W. Sheets, was sitting at his desk in conversation with lawyer William McDonald when the James brothers walked through the door. As Sheets got up to greet these customers, McDonald started to leave.MoreLess
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