Many have claimed that Jesse James, America’s most notorious bandit, was a Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor. Others have refuted the claim. But how did this debate begin, and is there any proof that Jesse was a Robin Hood? Perhaps the greatest influence on the Jesse James–Robin Hood link was the newspaper editor John N. Edwards, the so-called “Father of the James legend.” Early on, Edwards defined the Missouri outlaws as intelligent men who did what they did fo
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