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Oct 25, 2022 · For decades, a story had circulated amongst locals in the Ozarks that Jesse James and his gang had hidden treasure from a bank robbery they’d carried out in 1874. October 25, 2022. But that was all it was – a story – until one woodcutter from Missouri claimed to have stumbled across a cave-like opening in the side of a hill, near Gads ...
Jul 1, 2022 · In early September 1948, almost 75 years after the infamous Jesse James train raid at Gads Hill, Missouri, a man cutting timber near the robbery site stumbled onto a small cavelike opening in the side of a hill. He thought little of it at the time and after finishing his work returned home.
- Robbers Cave: The Outlaws' Hideout
- Jesse James' Hidden Treasure in The Wichita Mountains
- Jesse James in Eastern Oklahoma
- The Robbers Cave Experiments
In the years preceding Oklahoma statehood, the Ouachita Mountains remained as wild and rugged as the old west. Heavily forested and lined with hidden caverns and ravines, this area was a favorite hiding place for outlaws and bandits. One such spot, Robbers Cave, is known to have concealed the legendary Jessie James, as well as other famous outlaws ...
In northern Mexico, near present-day Calera, Jesse and his brother Frank staged a robbery that turned into a modern-day legend. In early 1876, the James brothers and 10 of their brethren attacked a detail of Mexican guardsmen driving 18 burros transporting gold bullion. After securing their loot, the Gang led the pack train across Texas and into In...
This is not the only story of hidden treasure found in the Wichitas. There are hundreds of tales that feature Jesse James and his gang in the area, but only a handful bear any truth. However, it has been documented that the gang did hold up at Robbers Cave several times.
Robbers Cave holds another tale of historic proportion. Although not related to the glory days of the American outlaw, this story is still one of treasure and great wealth, but of a different kind.
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Apr 18, 2023 · She told him to keep his eyes open, because Jesse James had buried gold there in the 1800s, and no one had found the treasure. That was right across the road from Bowser’s property. He had to ...
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Downfall of the gang. On September 7, 1876, the opening day of hunting season in Minnesota, the James–Younger gang attempted a raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota. The robbery quickly went wrong, however, and after the robbery only Frank and Jesse James remained alive and free.
The culprits, who got away after killing a passer-by, were assumed to be ex-bushwhackers and the James brothers may have been among them. But Jesse's first publicly confirmed bank robbery...
Oct 28, 2019 · On February 13, 1866, the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, Missouri, (visit the Jesse James Bank Museum), was robbed of roughly $60,000 in gold, currency and bonds. The gang of 10 to 12 men also killed a 19-year-old bystander.
