Lee's Summit, Missouri
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Lee's Summit is a city in Jackson and Cass counties in Missouri, United States. It is a suburb of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 101,108, making it the si
Downtown Lee's Summit
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1884
Longview Mansion, built in 1914 as part of Longview Farm
Sculpture with Green Street event space in the background
Cole Younger
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Thomas Coleman Younger was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw leader with the James–Younger Gang. He was the elder brother of Jim, John and Bob Younger
Lee's Summit, Missouri
…men's deaths, their sons joined up with William Quantrill's pro-Confederate gang and participated in the Lawrence Massacre. Most notable among them was Cole Younger, a life-long resident of Lee's Summit and outlaw who would become "Jesse James's right hand." In response to the Lawrence Massacre, Union General Thomas…
Portrait of Cole Younger taken when he was a prisoner at the Minnesota State Prison, c. 1889
Cole Younger after being wounded and captured in 1876
Cole Younger, c. 1915
Cole Younger gravesite in Lee's Summit, Missouri