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.
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In the war of 1856 Jackson county, and the settlement about Independence especially, was more largely represented, perhaps, than any other section.
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I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
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They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
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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.
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