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In Missouri, I saw a thousand people come to witness a living man's funeral.

Frontier gentlemen. Here with an Englishman's account of life and death in the West.

As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual stories.

But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories.

Now, starring John Dainer, this is the story of J.B. Kendall. Frontier gentlemen.

Prior to the war between the states, Cole Williams and his band of Missouri Irregulars terrorized Kansas.

He was reported to have been mortally wounded in his last monstrous raid, but his body was never found.

So when I heard that a man said to be

Cole Williams was dying in the river town of Batesville, Missouri, I traveled 300 miles in four days

on the chance that I might get to talk to him. I found the man under personal guard of the

sheriff in a room at the hotel. Oh, mister, I'm not letting anybody in that room

don't belong here.

But Sheriff, I'm a newspaper correspondent.

It don't make no difference to me.

My name is Kendall. I write for the London Times.

It still don't cut anything with me.

I ain't wearing him out on no newspaper man.

Then will you answer a few questions?

You ask them, we'll see.

Is the man really, Cole Williams?

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