The Sun is slowly setting. The birds stop singing. You should sleep, but instead you wonder if you will. There is no way to earn money, you will have to find another way to help yourself. Forget about sleeping in a house, the cold ground is your bed. All your “friends” are missing, your canteen is dry, and if you go to town you will definitely be shot. Once you screw up, you can't go back, because you're wanted. Dead or alive. Sam Bass was born to Daniel and Elizabeth Jane Sheeks Bass on July 21, 1851 near a small town called Mitchell, Indiana. He had a normal early childhood, apart from the fact that he did not attend school. This was normal for children in the mid-1800s, because school was not yet mandatory and most children were like Sam, used to taking care of the fields and animals on their parents' farms. His childhood deviated from normality when he was only ten years old. His mother died during the birth of her tenth child, and three years later, in 1864, Sam's father died. Being an orphan, he and his brothers went to live at an uncle's house, and in 1869, before he turned 18, he ran away from home. He was looking for a new way of life. For a while he worked in Mississippi for a local sawmill, and after finding it a fruitless task, he decided to move on. So he packed his bags and headed west with no specific destination, and during the summer of 1870 he found himself in Denton, Texas. Here he met a man named Robert Carruth and became a farmhand on his farm just outside Denton. He soon discovered that this was not the kind of career he wanted to be known for, and he returned to Denton, with a newfound interest in horse racing. While Sam was... halfway through the paper... .gle.com/search?q=sam+bass&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=608&prmd=ivnsbo=&tbs=tl:l&tbo=u&ei=76CtTcTjDYv2gAez--ySDA&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct= title&resnum=18&ved=0CIIBEOcCMBE>Egan, Clifford L. World Book. Chicago, IL: World Book Inc., 2006. Perez, Joan Jenkins. Peak, Junius W. Texas State Historical Association. April 20, 2011.Harrell Archives. Ancestry.com. June 4, 2008. RootsWeb. April 20, 2011 Gard, Wayne. Sam Bass. Google. 1964. Google. April 20, 2011.+parents&source=bl&ots=KRMXRbRhX&sig=myYOAzmtmZSGWkR5XoergJ11sqg&hl=en&ei=1vCuTf-3OMjtgHvPDeAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ# v=one page& q=sam%20bass%20parents&f=false>