There are many robberies in which Jesse was named as a participant, but hard evidence of his participation is often as elusive as the outlaw was himself. On December 7, , two men entered the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, killed the cashier for no apparent reason, and then grabbed a small metal box and fled. During their flight through the country, the robbers boasted to more than one person they met how they had slain Gallatin resident Maj.
Samuel P. Cox was the commander of the militia that had killed Bloody Bill Anderson, and he was targeted so as to avenge their former leader. Unfortunately for the dead cashier, it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead of Cox, the robbers had killed John W. There was no mistake, however, in identifying the fine mare abandoned by the bandits: It was a champion racehorse named Kate, and its owner was one Jesse James.
But I will never surrender myself to be mobbed by a set of bloodthirsty poltroons. Few men in postwar Missouri had as much influence as newspaperman John Newman Edwards The Times published subsequent missives from the outlaw as well, all of which Edwards enhanced to a certain extent, if not penning some outright.
Jesse James, age 22, was now an outlaw. Over the next 12 years there would be more hard riding, more robberies and more innocent victims, more letters denying involvement, and more offers of surrender in return for the guarantee of a fair trial. Jesse, his brother Frank, and their brothers in crime became the most wanted, the most despised, and the most celebrated outlaws in the nation. But the bullet that killed Jesse James had been fired years before Ford pulled the trigger on his revolver.
Like his fellow bushwhackers, many of them teenagers as well, Jesse became numb to the bloodshed and fixated on revenge. He killed men, and men tried to kill him. He learned to steal and pillage, justifying his actions with his own skewed moral code.
Such are the things that make an outlaw. All rights reserved. History Magazine. Murderer and thief, Jesse James was heavily armed when he posed for this photograph in the s.
Mother James. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. An undated photograph of Zerelda James Samuel, mother of Frank and Jesse James, reveals the toll that life had taken on the resolute Zerelda. Kansas-Missouri Mayhem. Quantrill's Raiders. A colored woodcut depicts the massacre in Lawrence, Kansas. Led by William C. Quantrill, it left more than civilians dead in its wake. Creating a Legend.
John Newman Edwards, 19th-century journalist and defender of the James brothers. Share Tweet Email. Read This Next Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. The James gang suffered a setback in when they raided the town of Northfield, Minnesota. The Younger brothers, cousins of the James brothers, were shot and wounded during the brazen midday robbery. After running off in a different direction from Jesse and Frank, the Younger brothers were captured by a large posse and later sentenced to life in prison.
Jesse and Frank, the only members of the gang to escape successfully, headed to Tennessee to hide out. After spending a few quiet years farming, Jesse organized a new gang.
Charlie and Robert Ford were on the fringe of the new gang, but they disliked Jesse intensely and decided to kill him for the reward money.
When Jesse turned his back to adjust a picture on the wall, Bob Ford shot him several times in the back. James, Died April 3, , Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.
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Kaczynski, born in Chicago James and Mary James Barr. After the Civil War ended, Jesse and Frank made their living robbing stagecoaches, banks and trains. On April 3, , Jesse was shot to death be a member of his own gang. In , Jesse and Ed were travelling around together. One day Jesse showed up without Ed. Jesse told people that Ed was ill and had stayed in Arkansas. He was never seen alive again. Supposedly the killing happened in Missouri but a body was never found. Only Jesse and Ed knew the truth of what happened, and those facts died with them.
There were very few shootings or killings in James-Younger gang robberies. They usually happened when the town fought back during a bank robbery. In the general firing, it would be hard to say Jesse shot a specific person. The gang prided themselves on being outlaws, not gunfighters or common killers. They usually went out of their way to not hurt anyone. September 27, Seventeen-year-old Jesse James puts the first notch on his gun. He, his….
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