Jesse James
American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber
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An ex-Confederate guerrilla who turned bank-and-train robbery into national celebrity, shot dead at 34 by a friend angling for the reward. The Robin Hood myth stuck despite zero evidence he shared the take.
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Jesse Woodson James was born September 5, 1847, in Missouri's "Little Dixie," where Southern sympathies ran deep. During the Civil War, he and his brother Frank rode with pro-Confederate bushwhackers under William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, accused of atrocities including the Centralia Massacre in 1864. After the war they turned outlaw, robbing banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest from roughly 1866 to 1876 as leaders of the James–Younger Gang. An 1876 bank job in Northfield, Minnesota, went sideways — several gang members were captured or killed — but Jesse and Frank k…
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