Youngers' Fatal Blunder. Northfield, Minnesota.

DALLAS CANTRELL

Publication: The Naylor Company, 1973, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Decorated fabricoid, xvii, [17], 152 pp., preface, acknowledgment, illustrated, portraits, plates, bibliography. "Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, intrepid Reconstruction gangsters in Missouri and Kansas, had taken part in sixteen daring holdups ... banks, trains and stages ... each a big success. Then they made elaborate plans with Frank and Jesse James to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota ... a disastrous failure." Adams 150 #27 says, "This is perhaps the most complete and reliable book written about the Northfield bank robbery and the prison life of the Youngers." Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with small chip to top of rear cover. An illusive title .