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Type: Criminal
Category: American Criminal
Date of Birth: January 15, 1844
Date of Death: March 21, 1916
Nationality: American

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.
Cole Younger

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
Cole Younger

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
Cole Younger

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
Cole Younger

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Cole Younger

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Cole Younger

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.
Cole Younger

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
Cole Younger

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
Cole Younger

The world may believe as it pleases.
Cole Younger

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
Cole Younger

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