By the latter part of the nineteenth century train robberies had become big business among western outlaws. During one period trains were being...
Jesse James missed out on a big score because of semantics.
Zerelda Cole James is best known as the mother of Frank and Jesse James. The boys’ father Robert died when he went to California in 1850. Two...
March 20, 1868. A group of robbers—which would evolve into the James-Younger Gang—hit the Nimrod Long Bank in Russellville, Kentucky. Bank...
Jesse James was the son of a Baptist minister, but he obviously took a wrong path. In September 1869, Jesse basically accepted that his faith was...
“One of the most brutal things in the world is your average 19-year-old American boy.” —T.J. Stiles, from Jesse James
Born into the Missouri-Kansas border war over slavery, teenaged Jesse James was destined to live a violent life.
Jesse James in Pop Culture 1875-1903
Bill Markley’s dual biography on Jesse James and Billy the Kid, a new Texas frontier history, two Western novels and a new history of the American Indian.
How Jesse James became one of Hollywood’s favorite outlaws.
When discussing the James-Younger Gang at the ill-fated Northfield Bank Robbery, the question often comes up, “Who shot banker Joe Heywood, Frank or...
The early outlaw years of Missouri’s legendary outlaw trail can be discovered on a road trip across the Show-Me state.