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Jesse James. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies.
Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969) is an American entrepreneur, automotive mechanic, and television personality. He is the founder of West Coast Choppers and former partner of Austin Speed Shop and current CEO of Jesse James Firearms Unlimited, both based in Austin, Texas.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse James was a bank and train robber in the American Old West, best known as the leading member of the James-Younger gang of outlaws. Updated: May 27, 2021. Photo: MPI/Getty Images....
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- Jesse James was a preacher’s son. Frank and Jesse James’ mother, Zerelda. Jesse Woodson James, born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, was the son of Kentucky native Zerelda Cole James and her husband, Robert James, a Baptist minister and slave-owning hemp farmer who assisted in founding William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
- He fought as a Confederate guerrilla in the U.S. Civil War. During the Civil War, the border state of Missouri was home to bitter fighting in which both sides of the conflict regularly murdered prisoners and civilians alike, mutilated enemy dead, looted property and livestock, and left towns and homes ablaze.
- James wasn’t a Wild West Robin Hood. During the 1869 bank robbery in Gallatin, the incident that first brought Jesse public notice as an outlaw, he shot and killed the bank’s cashier in an act of revenge, thinking the man was Samuel Cox, commander of the pro-Union militia troops who had murdered guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Anderson in October 1864.
- James and his cohorts eluded the Pinkertons. Allen Pinkerton (left) with President Abraham Lincoln and a Union general during the Civil War. After Jesse and Frank robbed a train at Gads Hill, Missouri, in January 1874, the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was called in to hunt them down.
Jan 17, 2019 · By Mark Lee Gardner. January 17, 2019. • 25 min read. In the words of the popular 19th-century ballad “Jesse James, ” the infamous Missouri outlaw "was a man that was knowed through all the...
Jul 9, 2020 · Jesse James: The Death of the Wild West Outlaw. The notorious robber was killed by a would-be gang member while plotting his next heist. By Tim Ott Updated: Jul 9, 2020. Photo: Bettmann/Getty...
Jesse James and Frank James (respectively, born September 5, 1847, near Centerville [now Kearney], Missouri, U.S.—died April 3, 1882, St. Joseph, Missouri; born January 10, 1843, near Centerville—died February 18, 1915, near Kearney) were two brothers who were among the most notorious outlaws of the American West, engaging in robberies that came...
