The Young Brothers Massacre remains the deadliest shootout with law enforcement in the history of the United States.
Originally intended for law enforcement, this book has never been available to the general public until now.
Complete with first-hand accounts and photographs of America's deadliest shootout.
The Young brothers, Paul, Harry, and Jennings, were well known to the law enforcement officers of southwest Missouri in the 1920s as small-time thieves.
On January 2, 1932, Sheriff Marcell Hendrix of Greene County, Missouri, received reliable information indicating that the two Young brothers were at their familyÕs farm near Brookline, a small village not far from Springfield.
Hendrix quickly assembled a posse of lawmen and set out for the farm. The ten police officers and one civilian who went to arrest the Young brothers were by todayÕs standards woefully unprepared for the job; they carried no weapons other than handguns, and most had no spare ammunition on them.