10 Interesting Facts I Could Find

1. Jesse and his brother Frank, Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War, were said to have committed atrocities against unarmed Union soldiers, scalping and dismembering them.
2. Jesse was shot in the chest while attempting to surrender to Union soldiers near Lexington, Missouri.
3. He recovered from the gunshot wound under the care of his first cousin. The two were eventually married to his first cousen !
4. The first bank robbery to which Jesse James was linked was that at the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, where James shot and killed a cashier he mistakenly believed was a former Civil War adversary. This marked the beginning of Jesse James public identification as an outlaw.
5. Jesse formed an alliance with the editor and founder of The Kansas City Star, who published letters from James that proclaimed his innocence. The editor wrote admiring editorials about James that painted him more as a noble character than a criminal.
6. Though the newspaper editor fostered a Robin Hood image of Jesse James and his gang, there was never any evidence or indication that they shared robbery money with anyone outside their gang.
7. The James-Younger gang, which was comprised of Jesse, his brother Frank, Cole Younger, his brothers, and some former Confederates, carried out a string of robberies from Iowa to Texas, and from Kansas to West Virginia. They robbed banks, stagecoaches, and a fair in Kansas City, often in front of large crowds.
8. Eventually, they turned to train robbery, usually robbing cars rather than passengers.
9. In 1874, a railroad company enlisted the Pinkerton National Detective agency to track down and capture the James-Younger gang.

The Importants

Jesse James isnt really important to history like The Civil Rights Movement or The Great Wall Of China, but he is known as the baddest outlaw in hinstory. He commited the first bank robbery, murdered lots of people, was in his group called The James Gang that took over towns & were the outlaws. After the bank robbery the gang fell apart and jesse james became the most famous.

Quick Facts About Jesse James

NAME: Jesse James

OCCUPATION: Murderer, Thief, Organized Crime Boss, Folk Hero

BIRTH DATE: September 5, 1847

DEATH DATE: April 03, 1882

PLACE OF BIRTH: Centerville, Missouri

PLACE OF DEATH: St. Joseph, Missouri

Full Name: Jesse Woodson James

AKA: James Gang

Child Hood

Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri. His father was a minister at a local Baptist church.
When Jesse was seventeen he joined the Confederate Army to help fight for independence from the union. He served the entire Civil War in a group of raiders led by the notorious William Clarke Quantrill. The group of men rode horseback into Kansas, conducting raids and harassing union sympathizers. The raids were quite violent and he once killed eight people on the same day.
When the unit finally surrendered to union forces, Jesse suffered minor wounds. After the war ended, he returned to Missouri and formed a gang of outlaws. The gang became known as the James Gang and included his brother Frank and several people that had been in Quantrill's Raiders.

More About Jesse

What makes Jesse a totally fascinating character is the human trait he brought to outlawry, akin only to Robin Hood. "Like his famous predecessor in folklore (although in fact James was a real person), Jesse James robbed from the rich and was kind to the poor," explains Encyclopaedia Britannica's Annals of America series. "(He) was always willing to help some cowpoke who was 'down on his luck'." Like anyone who has made an incredible dent in his/her own texture of time, Jesse rose above the realm of mortal fame by playing his own life on a human level. He preferred to be known as one of earth's seedlings who fought back against the sequoia of (what he saw) oppression. And by driving his pursuers crazy with anxiety and anger on their own level, that made his victories and, yes, the pursuit, too that much more thrilling.

Jesse James

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