For 70 years, True West’s editors have been publishing stories about the legendary Missouri outlaws. In the summer of 1953, True West’s founding editor and publisher Joe A. Small published issue #1, volume 1 of True West. In that first issue, Jesse and Frank James made their first appearance in the magazine. Eugene Pawley’s feature “He Outrobbed Jesse James” compared the career of Jesse and Frank James to little-known outlaw Bill Miner, who supposedly robbed his first stage with a c


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