Cole Younger's and Lew Nichols Carnival in Brady, Texas in 1907!
Former Southern Guerrillas and outlaws Cole Younger and Frank James started their own Great Cole Younger and Frank James Historical Wild West show in 1903. They toured many parts of the country. Sometime between Cole...
I ran across this story while researching William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson recently. Today, the value of the gold coins found in 1912 would be at least $600,000 in gold value alone. That's using the minimum estimated value ($10,000) of it in 1912 and isn't counting the coins' numismatic...
I read Rebel's latest reply on swiftsearcher's "Vault" topic and decided to start this new topic where we can discuss anything about the activities and members of the Knights of the Golden Circle after the Civil War ended. This thread can include, but is not limited to, KGC members work in...
From: "Jesse James and the Lost Cause" by Jesse Lee James, Published
by Pageant Press, New York, 1961, pages 34 & 35.
Here is the quote I have been wanting to quote on this board for
months ever since it jumped off the pages at me as I was reading the
book. I remind our members that I already...
I am going to start this new topic off by giving details about an excellent book I have read that deals with the huge influence the KGC had in the western expansion of the Confederacy. I hope other members will add your KGC book recommendations to this topic for the benefit of all KGC...
I discovered a fascinating story about the KGC while researching Bloody Bill Anderson for my group on Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloodybillandersonmystery
I posted this message at the group yesterday but want to re-post it here for all of you who are interested in learning about the...
I am a new member and have been researching a mysterious Brown County, Texas resident who was known to have ridden with Quantrill's Raiders. My grandmother used to tell me stories about him as we passed his big old farmhouse in the 1960's. When I read the Brewer book, "Rebel Gold", these...