A Horrible Deed. 60 Death Of Oll Shepherd. 89 Fight In A Gambler's Den. 100 Whicher Meets His Fate. 180 Night Attack On The Samuels Residence. 188 Death Of Farmer Askew. 205 An Alarmed "Cow-Boy." 303 After The "Greasers." 307 Fight With Mexican Cattle Thieves. 311 The Home Of Frank James, In Texas. 333 Geo. W. Shepherd. 364 Allen Parmer. 376 Wild Bill. 384 [Illustration: Quantrell's Last Fight. [Page 64.]] LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. CHAPTER I. THE JAMES FAMILY. "He was a godly man, Gentle and loving. He sought to save From mortal shame and eternal death, Forms laid in the silence of the grave." The Rev. Robert James, the father of Frank and Jesse, was a native of Kentucky. His parents were quiet, respectable people, belonging to the middle class of society. Their desire was to raise up their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Being themselves persons of intelligence and culture, far above the average of their neighbors in those days, the parents of Rev. Robert James resolved to give him as good an education as the facilities accessible to them would permit. Accordingly, Robert was early placed in a neighboring school, and made such progress as to gladden the hearts of his parents, and call forth auguries of future distinction from the friends and neighbors of the family. Robert James was a moral, studious youth, much given to reflection on subjects of a religious character. Before he had attained his eighteenth year, he had made an open profession of faith in the Christian religion, and united himself with a Baptist church, of which his parents were members. After passing through the various grades of an academic course, young James entered as a student of Georgetown College, Kentucky. Resolving to follow the profession of a minister, he commenced the study of Theology, was licensed to preach, and began his ministry in his twentieth year. Even then he was regarded as a youth of decided culture and more than ordinary ability.