On the night of August 16, 1897, Al and Frank Jennings, with Little Dick West and Morris and Pat O'Malley, stopped a southbound Santa Fe train at Edmond, but they were unable to shoot or blast the safe open. Under Al's leadership, they planned to rob trains. They were later joined by several members of the Doolin Gang. marshal's badges and using them to collect "tolls" from gullible trail herders moving their cattle through the Oklahoma Territory. In the mid-1890s, while working as cowboys, Al and Frank Jennings decided to become outlaws. Al and Frank Jennings did, indeed, follow that criminal pursuit and, Al, the leader of a motley gang, proved to be the most incompetent outlaw of the Old West. Jennings, were a fun-loving lot who dreamed of becoming bandits. One of the more comic characters of the American frontier, Al Jennings, born on November 25, 1863, was raised with his brothers Edward, Frank, and John at Kiowa Creek, Oklahoma, near the town of Woodward. Al Jennings: The Most Inept Outlaw of the Old WestĪl Jennings: The Most Inept Outlaw of the Old West by Jay Robert Nash
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