Outlaws of the West #60

Cole Younger, a teenage recruit in William Clarke Quantrill's guerrilla force during the Civil War, proves himself fearless and sharp under fire as Union cavalry closes in from all sides. From the siege at the Flannery House to daring cavalry charges and desperate escapes across Missouri, the young fighter earns command of his own company through quick thinking and nerves of steel. This is the story of how a farm boy became one of the West's most formidable outlaws.

In this action-packed account of the Old West's most notorious outlaws, Cole Younger leads his gang through a series of daring bank robberies and train jobs across Missouri and beyond, from their first strike in Liberty in 1866 through their audacious 1873 railroad heist. Watch as the Younger-James gang uses speed, precision, and nerve to outmaneuver lawmen across the frontier, always managing to slip back into the Missouri hills where organized pursuit falters. Their exploits grow bolder—including one brazen robbery in Corydon, Iowa, where they casually announce their crime to a crowd gathered for a political speech—as they become some of the most hunted men in the West.

Fifteen years into his outlaw career, Cole Younger teams up with Jesse James and others to rob the Northfield bank—a job that promises thrills beyond mere gold, but quickly spirals into gunfire when the townsfolk fight back harder than expected. As the gang flees and a massive manhunt closes in, Cole and his brothers find themselves cornered in a Minnesota swamp, facing the reckoning that will define the end of their violent reign. Their fate hangs in the balance as law and order finally catch up to the Younger gang's legendary rampage across the West.

The Apache Kid, once a skilled cavalry scout, turned to crime and robbery in Arizona's badlands—only to be captured by Sheriff Glenn Reynolds. After a fateful moment of mercy from the lawman during a transfer, the Kid escapes while his fellow prisoners meet their end, and goes on to become one of the West's most feared nocturnal outlaws, striking with brutal swiftness from the shadows. When a scout named Hualpai Smith investigates a disturbance at his corral, the Kid's reign of terror reaches a mysterious conclusion neither man emerges from the darkness.