Cole Younger show he is characterized by a large leather mask that he wears in perpetuity, and the only reference to a brother is his follower: Ephram Younger. The character resides just outside the town of Great Bend, Kansas and is played by Brian O'Connor. In the episode ‘’Cole Younger’’ (Season 4, Episode 17) of the western television show "Tales of Wells Fargo", Cole Younger (Royal Dano) and his brothers have a run-in with Jim Hardie (Dale Robertson) of Wells Fargo after their Northfield, Minnesota bank job. Cole Younger appears briefly towards the end of Charles Portis' 1968 novel "True Grit". Cole
John Mason (outlaw) John Mason (outlaw) John Mason, (? – 1866), with Jim Henry, was one of the leaders of the Mason Henry Gang organized by secessionist Judge George Gordon Belt, that posed as Confederate partisan rangers but acted as outlaws, committing robberies, thefts and murders in the San Joaquin Valley, Monterey County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County and later in the counties of Southern California. Little is known about John Mason before he joined the Mason Henry Gang. He was Southern-born and a former stage hostler who had reportedly killed several men in altercations. In the spring of 1864 the gang