and he finally brought Jesse down with the help of the outlaw's own gang. In the aftermath of the failed Northfield bank robbery of 1876, Frank and Jesse James were forced to hide under assumed ...

But Jesse and Frank James felt no peace ... proclaimed innocence for specific crimes while wearing the general outlaw's mantle. "We are not thieves," he wrote, "we are bold robbers.

After the American Civil War, outlaw Jesse James forms a gang comprised of himself, his brother Frank James, Cole Younger and his two brothers, Jim Younger and Bob Younger as well as Ed Miller and ...