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Aug 21, 2021 · Jesse James: The Confederate Avenger Who Became An American Folk Hero. He participated in an infamous massacre of Union soldiers, but when he got to write his own story, Jesse James cast himself as the Robin Hood of the Wild West. While Jesse James is often the first man to come to mind when reducing the idea of the Old West to an individual ...
Nov 13, 2009 · 1882. Jesse James is murdered. One of America’s most famous criminals, Jesse James, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford, who betrayed James for reward money. For 16 years, Jesse and ...
Aug 17, 2013 · Shot All To Hell: Jesse James, The Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape is a new book about the legendary man. Most people know that Jesse James, and his brother Frank were outlaws ...
The influences of Zerelda and Archie Clement combined with Jesse James' war experiences to foster James' career of politically-tinged violence. Stiles notes that the Confederate guerrilla group he joined at the age of 16, was, "essentially a death squad, going farm to farm in the county where he had grown up, murdering farmers in their fields ...
Jesse Woodson James was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847. He was the third of four children born to Robert and Zerelda Cole James, both Kentucky natives. Jesse James had an older brother Frank, a brother, Robert, who died in infancy, and a younger sister, Susan. His father was a slave-owning farmer and popular Baptist ...
Jesse James: Directed by Henry King, Irving Cummings. With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott. After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Aug 24, 2021 · Most everybody has heard of Jesse James — the legendary outlaw who robbed and murdered his way across the Midwest. The man is a legend in his own right, and James' rise to fame began while he was still alive. After serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War — perhaps as revenge against Union soldiers who attacked his family farm in ...
