The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock / Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates

Transcriber’s Note
Cover created by Transcriber, using an image and text from the original book, and placed in the Public Domain.
Cave-in-Rock
(From an original oil painting by J. Bernhard Alberts, made in 1916)
THE OUTLAWS OF CAVE-IN-ROCK
Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates who operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and over the old Natchez Trace
by Otto A. Rothert Secretary, The Filson Club
The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland: 1924
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY OTTO A. ROTHERT
All Rights Reserved
TO MY FRIEND YOUNG E. ALLISON
This book is intended to give the authentic story of the famous Cave-in-Rock of the lower Ohio River, as collected from historic and romantic sources, and to present verified accounts of the most notorious of those highwaymen and river pirates who in the early days of the middle West and South filled the Mississippi basin with the alarm and terror of their crimes and exploits.