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[OUTLAWS]. [JAMES, Frank (1843-1915)]. Portrait of… Important New Feature of “Border Outlaws”. St. Louis: Historical Publishing Co., n.d. [1881]. 8vo (216 x 140 mm). Broadside on yellow paper (horizontal crease, few tiny stains). A rare prospectus, printed in the James Brothers’ home state of Missouri, for Border Outlaws (published in 1881), that contains a “genuine portrait” of Frank James of the James-Younger Gang. Border Outlaws, according to the prospectus, was the “standard and only genuine history of the Younger and James Brothers, and their bands of highwaymen”. Frank James was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James and member of the James-Younger Gang. James was involved in at least four robberies between 1868 and 1876 that resulted in the deaths of bank employees or citizens. The Gang was finally apprehended during a raid on 7 September 1876 that ended with the death or capture of most of the gang. Frank James would be acquitted of all charges and lived out the last thirty years of his life as a free man.