The Bandit Kings of the Cookson Hills

Book excerpt: This book chrinicles the true adventure of a loose-knit confederation of daring bandits originating from the infamous Cookson Hills of Eastern Oklahoma who terrorized the Arkansas-Oklahoma borderlands for more than a half decade following the close of the First World War.This Account, which takes place in the "Roing '20s." is meant to serve as a prelude to the author's first book, The Bad Boys of the Cookson Hills, which chronicles the activities of another band of outlaws who launched a prolific series of attacts on nearly two-dozen banks in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Arkansas during the 1930s depression era. This second "Cookson Hills Gang was headquartered in the same geographic area as the earlier version noted in this narrative and some of the characters involved with the orginal outfit were active members of the latter group.