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
Lynching of the Ruggles brothers talked John into joining him on the outlaw trail. On May 10, 1892, the brothers robbed the Weaverville stage, but the take was small. The men settled on a location on top of a hill five miles north of Redding to pull off their next robbery. The stage would be moving slowly, and the horses would be tired from the uphill journey. The brothers stopped the stage on May 12, 1892, and everything went according to plan, until Charles was hit with buckshot fired by a guard riding inside the coach. More shots rang out, and soon passenger George Suhr,