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  THE OUTLAWS
  OF
  CAVE-IN-ROCK

[Illustration: 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_

  [Illustration]

  The Arthur H. Clark Company
  Cleveland: 1924




  COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
  OTTO A. ROTHERT

  _All Rights Reserved_




  TO MY FRIEND
  YOUNG E. ALLISON




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  THE PURPOSE OF THIS NARRATIVE    