The Swamp Outlaws; Or, the North Carolina Bandits

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Swamp Outlaws; Or, the North Carolina Bandits: Being a Complete History of the Modern Rob Roys and Robin Hoods A few months ago a man by the name of Marsden announced that he meant to travel up and down the road as a detective and kill Lowery 011 sight. To put him to the test Lowery and all the band appeared with cocked shot g'uns at Moss Neck station, and stood at a respectable, yet fin-tire, present arms, while the braggart, for such he was, crawled under the car seat. L'owery offered $100 reward to anybody who would tell him whether Marden or Marsden was 011 the train, as he meant to foliow the fellow Up the road but he would not cross the platform himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.