Richmond

God will never let an ornery man like that live until then.

Eleven months after that day, Charlie Ford committed suicide in Richmond, Missouri, by shooting himself.

Bob Ford was shot and killed later in a gambling house in Colorado.

a great many persons have asked me in recent years if i would have sought revenge on the fords if they had lived till i grew up i have never given a direct answer to that question i answer it now by saying that i would not have troubled the fords or sought an encounter with them or any of the other enemies of my father i realized that the feelings and prejudices of the days of border warfare have almost passed away that the times and conditions have changed and that it was a certainty that with a price of ten thousand dollars on his head it was only a matter of time till some trader would kill my father to get it and that if the fords had not done it some other would have Every member of the James family has proven to the world in the seventeen years since my father's death that they are good citizens and honest men and women.

He wearied no more than a plough that oxen pull, or despaired never so much as the granite mast the storms beat upon and the lightning strike.

Shot dead from his saddle at last in a charge reckless beyond all reason, none triumphed over him a captive before the work was done of the fetters and the rope.

His body, however, remained in the hands of the enemy, who dragged it for some distance as two mules might draw a saw-log, and finally propped it up in a picture gallery in Richmond, Missouri, and had pictures taken of the waned-drawn face of the dead lion and his great mane of a beard that was full of the dead leaves and the dust of the highway.

End of chapter 6 CHAPTER VII.

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We've been going there.

It's pretty good.

They got another one in Richmond.

Oh, do they?

God will never let an ornery man like that live until then.

Eleven months after that day, Charlie Ford committed suicide in Richmond, Missouri, by shooting himself.

Bob Ford was shot and killed later in a gambling house in Colorado.

A great many persons have asked me in recent years if I would have sought revenge on the Fords if they had lived till I grew up.

He wearied no more than a plough that oxen pull, or despaired never so much as the granite mast the storms beat upon and the lightning strike.

Shot dead from his saddle at last in a charge reckless beyond all reason, none triumphed over him a captive before the work was done of the fetters and the rope.

His body, however, remained in the hands of the enemy, who dragged it for some distance as two mules might draw a saw-log, and finally propped it up in a picture gallery in Richmond, Missouri, and had pictures taken of the waned-drawn face of the dead lion and his great mane of a beard that was full of the dead leaves and the dust of the highway.

End of chapter 6 CHAPTER VII.