THE OVERTON RECORD, Texas, Oct. 31, 1889  

* Very rare Southwest publication
* Jesse James & the Ford Brothers 

Overton only had one newspaper thru 1936 and this was it. It is not known how long this title existed, but Gregory's Union List of American Newspapers notes only one institution having had any issues, and it had just two dates, both of which have been deaccessioned. This is one of them.
The top of the front page has an article with column heads: "SHOT AT BOB FORD" " 'Look Out, Bob, I'm Going to Kill You.' Said Cowboy Kurry" "But the Slayer of Jesse James was Too Quick for the Gentlemen".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, minor margin wear, good condition.

Background: This incredibly rare four-page copy of The Overton Record from October 31, 1889, represents an invaluable intersection of lost American print history and Wild West lore. As the only surviving physical footprint of a newspaper considered a literal "ghost" by archivists—with its only known institutional copies long since deaccessioned—this specific issue captures a high-stakes, real-time snapshot of the dangerous aftermath following the 1882 assassination of Jesse James. The front-page article, detailing how a cowboy named Kurry attempted to ambush Robert "Bob" Ford with the warning "Look Out, Bob, I'm Going to Kill You," underscores the immense, inescapable target Ford wore on his back after killing America's most famous outlaw. The historical significance of the event lies in its raw illustration of the "live by the gun, die by the gun" reality of the era; while Ford's legendary, paranoid quick-draw allowed him to outmaneuver his attacker in Texas in 1889, the incident foreshadowed his ultimate fate just three years later in 1892, when his luck finally ran out in a Colorado saloon shootout, making this paper a rare testament to the violent, cyclical nature of frontier justice.