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waiting in Mills Square to guard the gang's escape route. According to some reports, J. S. Allen shouted to the townspeople, “Get your guns, boys, they’re robbing the bank!” Once local citizens realized a robbery was in progress, several took up arms from local hardware stores. Shooting from behind cover, they poured deadly fire on the outlaws. During the gun battle, medical student Henry Wheeler killed Miller, shooting from a third-floor window of the Dampier House Hotel, across the street from the bank. Another civilian named A. R. Manning, who took cover at the corner of the Sciver building down the street, killed Stiles. Other civilians wounded the Younger brothers (Cole was shot in his left hip, Bob suffered a shattered elbow, and Jim was shot in the jaw). The only civilian fatality on the street was 30-year-old Nicholas Gustafson, an unarmed recent Swedish immigrant, who was killed by Cole Younger at the corner of 5th Street and Division.
504:. One of the outlaws shot the cashier, R. A. C. Martin, who had refused to open the safe. On September 23, 1872, three men (identified by former bushwhacker Jim Chiles as Jesse James and Cole and John Younger) robbed a ticket booth of the Second Annual Kansas City Industrial Exposition, amid thousands of people. They took some $ 900, and accidentally shot a little girl in the ensuing struggle with the ticket-seller. Apart from Chiles' testimony, there is no other evidence this crime was committed by the James or Younger brothers, and Jesse later wrote a letter denying his or the Youngers' involvement. Cole was furious over this, because neither he nor brother John had been linked to the crime before the letter. The crime was praised by 681:. Frank and Jesse James had been there earlier but had already left. When the Pinkertons threw an iron incendiary device into the house, it exploded when it rolled into a blazing fireplace. The blast nearly severed the right arm of Zerelda Samuel, the James boys' mother (the arm had to be amputated at the elbow that night), and killed their 9-year-old half-brother, Archie Samuel. On April 12, 1875, an unknown gunman shot dead Daniel Askew, a neighbor and former Union militiaman who may have been suspected of providing the Pinkertons with a base for their raid. Allan Pinkerton then abandoned the chase for the James–Younger Gang. 426: 1029:
States during his stay at the Minnesota Territorial Prison in Stillwater. Bob Younger died in prison of tuberculosis on September 15, 1889, at the age of 36. After much legal dispute, Cole and Jim Younger were paroled in 1901 on the condition they remain in Minnesota. Jim committed suicide on October 19, 1902, while on parole in St. Paul, at the age of 54. Cole Younger received a pardon in 1903 on the condition that he leave Minnesota and never return. He traveled to Missouri where he joined a "Wild West" show with Frank James and died there on March 21, 1916, at the age of 72.
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arrived in Northfield about 1:00 p.m. and set up their vegetable wagon along the Cannon River near 5th Street. About 2:00 p.m., they heard gunshots. Nicolaus Gustafson ran to the intersection of Division and 5th a block away, where he was shot in the head as the bank was being robbed. Gustafson died four days later. Another Swede named John Olson was an eyewitness to the Gustafson shooting and later testified against Cole Younger.
735: 462: 608: 201:. After the war, the men continued to plunder and murder, though the motive shifted to personal profit rather than in the name of the Confederacy. The loose association of outlaws did not truly become the "James–Younger Gang" until 1868 at the earliest, when the authorities first named Cole Younger, John Jarrett, Arthur McCoy, George Shepherd and Oliver Shepherd as suspects in the robbery of the Nimrod Long bank in 885: 3180: 969: 952: 422:. In the aftermath of the two raids, however, the more senior bushwhackers were killed, captured or simply left the group. This set the stage for the emergence of the James and Younger brothers, and the transformation of the old crew into the James–Younger Gang. John Jarrett and Arthur McCoy were mentioned in numerous newspaper accounts, so they were likely active in gang activities up to 1875. 923: 750: 965:, convinced the state's railroad and express executives to put up the money for a large reward for the capture of the James brothers. Creed Chapman and John Bugler were arrested for participating in the robbery on September 7, 1881. Though they were confirmed as having participated in the robbery by convicted members of the gang, neither was ever convicted. 856:. On November 16, a grand jury issued four indictments – one each for the first-degree murders of Joseph Heywood and Nicolaus Gustafson, one for bank robbery, and one for assault with deadly weapons on the wounded bank clerk, Bunker. The three brothers pleaded guilty on November 20, 1876, and were sentenced to life terms in the 841:, on September 21, two weeks after the Northfield raid. In the gunfight that followed, Pitts was killed and the Youngers were again wounded. The Youngers surrendered and pleaded guilty to murder in order to avoid execution. Frank and Jesse secured horses and fled west across southern Minnesota, turning south just inside the border of the 780:. He had recently moved to Northfield, where his father owned the mill on the Cannon River and had a large amount of stock in the bank. One of the outlaws "had a spite" against Ames, Bob said. Cole Younger said much the same thing years later and recalled greeting "General Ames" on the street in Northfield just before the robbery. 896:, where they spent the next three years living peacefully. Frank in particular seemed to have thrived in his new life farming in the Whites Creek area. Jesse did not adapt well to peace; he gathered up recruits, formed a new gang and returned to a life of crime. On October 8, 1879, Jesse and his gang robbed the 45: 1025:. Frank James was found not guilty by juries in both cases (July 1883 at Gallatin and April 1884 at Huntsville). Missouri kept jurisdiction over him with other charges but they never came to trial and they kept him from being extradited to Minnesota. Frank James died on February 8, 1915, at the age of 72. 512:
in a famous editorial entitled, "The Chivalry of Crime." Edwards soon published an anonymous letter from one of the outlaws (believed to be Jesse) that referred to the approaching presidential election: "Just let a party of men commit a bold robbery, and the cry is hang them. But Grant and his party
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Nicolaus Gustafson was buried in Northfield because the Millersburg Swedes had no cemetery in 1876. After his death, the Millersburg Swedes determined to establish their own church and burial ground. Peter Youngquist and Carl Hirdler donated an acre of land adjacent to their homes overlooking Circle
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then ran out of the bank after hearing the shooting outside and mounted their horses to make a run for it, having taken only several bags of nickels from the bank. Every year in September, Northfield hosts "Defeat of Jesse James Days", a celebration of the town's victory over the James–Younger Gang.
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The Youngers remained loyal to the Jameses when they were in prison and never informed on them. They ended up being model prisoners and in one incident helped keep other prisoners from escaping during a fire at the prison. Cole Younger also founded the longest-running prison newspaper in the United
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on the morning of September 7, 1876. The gang attempted to rob the bank about 2:00 p.m. on September 7. Northfield residents had seen the gang leave a local restaurant near the mill shortly after noon, where they dined on fried eggs. They testified at the Younger brothers' trial that the group
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In addition to the death of Miller and Stiles, every one of the rest of the gang was wounded, including Frank James and Pitts, both shot in their right legs. Jesse James was the last one to be shot, taking a bullet in the thigh as the gang escaped. The six surviving outlaws rode out of town on the
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Three of the outlaws (Bob Younger, Frank James and Charlie Pitts) crossed the bridge by the Ames Mill and entered the bank; the other five (Jesse James, Cole and Jim Younger, Bill Stiles and Clell Miller) stood guard outside. Two were standing outside the bank's front door and the other three were
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The conflict rapidly escalated into a succession of atrocities committed by both sides. Union troops often executed or tortured suspects without trial and burned the homes of suspected guerrillas and those suspected of aiding or harboring them. Where credentials were suspect, the accused guerrilla
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refused to open the safe and was murdered for resisting. The two other employees in the bank were teller Alonzo Bunker and assistant bookkeeper Frank Wilcox. Bunker escaped from the bank by running out the back door despite being wounded in the right shoulder by Pitts as he ran. The three robbers
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area in 1876, including Peter Gustafson, who had recently been joined by his brother Nicolaus and nephew Ernst from Sweden. West of Millersburg that morning, Peter Youngquist harnessed his mules and headed for Northfield to sell farm produce, accompanied by Gustafson and three others. The Swedes
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but neither to fight for it nor against it: its position, as determined by an 1861 constitutional convention, was officially neutral. Missouri, however, had been the scene of much of the agitation leading up to the outbreak of the war, and was home to dedicated partisans from both sides. In the
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when they decided to split up (despite persistent stories to the contrary, Cole Younger told interviewers that they all agreed to the decision). The Youngers and Pitts remained on foot, moving west, until finally they were cornered in a swamp called Hanska Slough, just south of
997:. Bob and his brother Charley surrendered to the authorities, pleaded guilty, and were promptly pardoned by Crittenden. On October 4, 1882, Frank James surrendered to Crittenden. Accounts say that Frank surrendered with the understanding that he would not be extradited to 497:, claiming Republicans were persecuting him for his Confederate loyalties by accusing him and Frank of carrying out the robberies. "But I don't care what the degraded Radical party thinks about me," he wrote, "I would just as soon they would think I was a robber as not." 363:, he learned that Quantrill and Anderson had both been killed. The James brothers, however, continued to associate with their old guerrilla comrades, who remained together under the leadership of Archie Clement. It was likely Clement who, amid the tumult of 406:
was dispatched to the town. They convinced the bushwhackers to disperse, then attempted to capture Clement, who still had a price on his head. Clement refused to surrender and was shot down in a wild gunfight on the streets of Lexington.
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Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months. As well as the notorious James brothers, at various times it included the Younger brothers (
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On November 24, John Newman Edwards published a lengthy glorification of the James brothers, Cole and John Younger, and Arthur McCoy, in a twenty-page special supplement to his newspaper the
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to a Confederate veteran, saying that Northern men had driven them to outlawry and that they intended to make them pay for it. On January 31, the gang robbed a southbound train on the
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during the Civil War. The James brothers were unknown up to this point; this may have been their first robbery. Their names were later added to previous robberies as an afterthought.
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near Glendale, in Jackson County, Missouri. Unfortunately for Jesse, one of the men, Tucker Basham, was captured by a posse. He told authorities he had been recruited by Bill Ryan.
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in 1873). Most of the supplement, entitled "A Terrible Quintet," was devoted to Jesse James, the gang's public face, and the article stressed their Confederate loyalties.
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to fight the increasingly organized and deadly partisans. This conflict (fought largely, though not exclusively, between Missourians themselves) raged until after the
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For nearly a decade following the Civil War, the James–Younger Gang was among the most feared, most publicized, and most wanted confederations of outlaws on the
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Shortly after the robbery, Bob Younger declared that they had selected it because of its connection to two Union generals and Radical Republican politicians:
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and his son-in-law Adelbert Ames. General Ames had just stepped down as Governor of Mississippi, where he had been strongly identified with civil rights for
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in at least eleven states: Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and West Virginia.
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Minnesotans joined posses and set up picket lines by the hundreds. After several days the gang had only reached the western outskirts of
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From top to bottom: Bodies of Clell Miller and Bill Caldwell ; Cole Younger; Charlie Pitts (two rows); Bob Younger; the Northfield Bank
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took control of the state. Still, pro-Confederate guerrillas resisted; by early 1862, the Unionist provisional government mobilized a
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On July 7, 1876, Frank and Jesse James, Cole and Bob Younger, Clell Miller, Charlie Pitts, Bill Chadwell and Hobbs Kerry robbed the
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can steal millions and it is all right," the outlaw wrote. "They rob the poor and rich, and we rob the rich and give to the poor."
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with Frank and Cole). McDaniel was killed by a posse and Webb was caught. The other two robbers, Frank and Cole, escaped.
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mid-1850s, local Unionists and Secessionists had begun to battle each other throughout the state, and by the end of 1861,
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Website for the American Experience documentary on Jesse James, broadcast on PBS, with transcript and additional material
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and historical markers in front of the church tell the story of Nicolaus Gustafson and the founding of Christdala.
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The Pinkerton deaths added to the growing embarrassment suffered by Missouri's first post-war Democratic governor,
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Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, Frank and Jesse James, Charlie Pitts, Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell took the train to
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in January 1871. He killed two lawmen during the attempt and escaped. On June 3, 1871, the gang robbed a bank in
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Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
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in Chicago, the first involvement of the famous agency in the pursuit of the James–Younger Gang. Agency founder
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Official website for the family of Frank & Jesse James: Stray Leaves, A James Family in America Since 1650
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In December 1881, Wood Hite was killed by Liddil in an argument over Martha Bolton, the sister of the Fords.
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Artist's concept of the 1869 shooting of Capt. John Sheets of Gallatin, allegedly by Frank and Jesse James
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smelled of alcohol and that the gang was obviously under the influence when they greeted General Ames.
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dispatched his son, Robert Pinkerton, who joined a county sheriff in tracking the gang to a farm in
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Despite the death of Clement, his old followers remained together, and robbed a bank across the
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On February 12, 1866, a group of gunmen carried out one of the first daylight, peacetime, armed
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in prison. Ford, on the other hand, agreed to bring down Jesse James in return for the reward.
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On April 3, 1882, Ford fatally shot Jesse James behind the ear at James's rented apartment in
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1901 newspaper interview with Cole and Jim Younger upon their release from a Minnesota prison
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The History of the Christdala Evangelical Swedish Lutheran Church of Millersburg, Minnesota
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The James–Younger Gang dissolved in 1876, following the capture of the Younger brothers in
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The Rocky Cut raid set the stage for the final act of the James–Younger Gang: the famous
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On May 27, 1873, the James–Younger Gang robbed the Ste. Genevieve Savings Association in
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Newspapers report the rise, exploits, and fall of Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang
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The Last Ride of the James–Younger Gang; Jesse James and the Northfield Raid 1876
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On the night of January 25, 1875, Pinkerton agents surrounded the James farm in
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Dundas Road toward Millersburg where four of them had spent the night before.
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2 miles (3.2 km) west of Millersburg. Today the church is listed on the
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On December 7, 1869, Frank and Jesse James are believed to have robbed the
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The James and Younger brothers belonged to families from an area known as "
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was often executed, as in the case of Lt. Col. Frisby McCullough after the
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arrested Wood Hite's brother Clarence, who made a confession but died of
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With this new outbreak of train robberies, the new Governor of Missouri,
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On September 3, 1880, Jesse James and Bill Ryan robbed a stagecoach near
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On July 15, 1881, Frank and Jesse James, Wood and Clarence Hite, and
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The First National Bank building in Northfield, site of the robbery
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On July 21, 1873, the gang carried out what was arguably the first
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
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By September 1875, at least part of the gang had ventured east to
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B. Wayne Quist (July 2009). "The Murder of Nicholaus Gustafson".
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in which a train crewman and a passenger were killed, and one in
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Also in 1875, the two James brothers moved to the outskirts of
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that participated in the bitter partisan fighting that wracked
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On September 23, 1876, the Younger brothers were taken to the
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west of the Mississippi River, derailing a locomotive of the
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In January 1874, the outlaws were suspected of holding up a
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Outlaws: The Illustrated History of the James–Younger Gang
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Thirteen Swedish families lived west of Northfield in the
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Northfield (Minnesota) Historical Society Bank Raid Wiki
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warfare erupted between Confederate partisans known as "
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The James and Younger brothers are major characters in
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Peter Braunstein; Michael William Doyle, eds. (2013).
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The James–Younger Gang had its origins in a group of
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Wellman Jr., Paul I; Brown, Richard Maxwell (1986).
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Four months later, on June 13, 1866, two members of
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Website for T. J. Stiles's biography of Jesse James
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Osprey Publishing. 2037: 2018: 1953: 1317: 1310:History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri 1286:. University of Nebraska Press. p. 384. 721: 500:On April 29, 1872, the gang robbed a bank in 347:At the war's end, Frank James surrendered in 1549: 1001:. Only two cases ever came to trial: one in 892:Having escaped, Frank James joined Jesse in 653:The gang was observed during this period by 370: 332:, though Cole eventually joined the regular 2640: 2626: 2190: 2176: 1945:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 1392:"Eye-Witness Account of 1869 Bank Robbery" 43: 2396:Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter 1329:The James–Younger Gang: Come Ride With Us 1956:Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War 1497: 1005:, for the July 15, 1881, robbery of the 967: 950: 921: 888:Winston, Missouri Rock Island Line depot 883: 748: 740: 733: 725: 606: 460: 424: 1773:, chapter 8: "Highwaymen came riding", 1733: 1017:, for the March 11, 1881, robbery of a 815:Inside the bank, the assistant cashier 14: 3199: 1856: 1503: 1389: 379:in U.S. history when they held up the 3212:Outlaw gangs of the American Old West 2621: 2581:Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James 2574:Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James 2171: 1715:James–Younger Gang: Frank James Trial 1235:The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself 1059: 1019:United States Army Corps of Engineers 156:. The gang was based in the state of 3179: 1622:"Little by Liddil (Jesse Goes Down)" 1619: 1307:National Historical Company (1885). 1224:(William Morrow, 2000; New York), a 874:National Register of Historic Places 666:The gang next robbed a train on the 473:John Younger was almost arrested in 445:, the Union militia officer who had 2412:The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 2316:Adventures of Frank and Jesse James 1620:Bell, Bob Boze (13 December 2007). 1417:"Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Nichols" 1175:The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 621:Pinkerton National Detective Agency 483:Pinkerton National Detective Agency 160:, the home of most of the members. 24: 3232:Missouri in the American Civil War 2649:Missouri in the American Civil War 2058: 1071:Cultural depictions of Jesse James 25: 3248: 3217:19th-century people from Missouri 2079: 1769:Walter N. Trenerry (1962, p. 85) 1695:A&E Television Networks, LLC. 1664:A&E Television Networks, LLC. 1504:Coates, Benjamin (January 2014). 1493:. The Officer Down Memorial Page. 1487:"Deputy Sheriff Edwin P. Daniels" 1441:. The Officer Down Memorial Page. 1423:. The Officer Down Memorial Page. 1396:Daviess County Historical Society 1379:. The Officer Down Memorial Page. 1361:. The Officer Down Memorial Page. 1046:Students for a Democratic Society 763:First National Bank of Northfield 324:, was believed to be a Unionist. 3178: 3169: 3168: 1902: 1889: 1862:"Truth, Legend, and Jesse James" 635:on a rural stretch of road near 2197: 1973:Settle Jr., William A. (1977). 1850: 1828: 1807: 1780: 1763: 1727: 1708: 1677: 1646: 1613: 1587: 1562: 1479: 1471:. July 21, 1881. Archived from 1457: 1044:headed a splinter group of the 557: 456: 381:Clay County Savings Association 2332:The James Brothers of Missouri 2023:. Madison Books. p. 408. 1911:interview with Ted Yeatman on 1685:"Jesse James shot in the back" 1445: 1435:"Deputy Sheriff James McMahan" 1427: 1409: 1383: 1365: 1347: 1300: 1275: 1048:(SDS) that called itself the " 915:robbed a federal paymaster at 879: 13: 1: 2372:The True Story of Jesse James 1465:"William Pinkerton Interview" 1268: 1241: 1237:(Cole Younger, 1903; Chicago) 1228:of "Bloody Bill" Anderson by 1214: 1151:The True Story of Jesse James 578:. There, the gang returned a 297:and the surrender of General 3237:Knights of the Golden Circle 1775:Minnesota Historical Society 1284:A Dynasty of Western Outlaws 858:Minnesota Territorial Prison 827: 546:(Edwards had moved from the 7: 2715:Price's Missouri Expedition 1506:"The Pan-American Lobbyist" 1454:, Monday, Feb 2, 1874, p. 1 1064: 604:newspaper for publication. 568:Bienville Parish, Louisiana 140:was a notable 19th-century 10: 3253: 2356:The Great Jesse James Raid 2162:Today's James Younger Gang 2138:Defeat of Jesse James Days 1815:Jesse James and the Movies 1599:Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 1082:The James Boys in Missouri 1068: 946:Chicago and Alton Railroad 898:Chicago and Alton Railroad 722:Northfield, Minnesota Raid 394:were freed from prison in 260:From the beginning of the 255: 250: 29: 3164: 3143: 3123: 3065: 3058: 3028: 3002: 2995: 2963: 2898: 2867: 2811: 2730: 2723: 2702: 2681: 2655: 2594: 2565: 2547: 2528: 2512:The Legend of Jesse James 2481: 2471:The Legend of Jesse James 2454: 2275: 2268: 2246: 2205: 1901: 1896: 1654:"Jesse James is murdered" 1032: 712:Missouri Pacific Railroad 686:Huntington, West Virginia 637:Monegaw Springs, Missouri 371:Early years: 1866 to 1870 124: 108: 90: 82: 61: 42: 2000:Yeatman, Ted P. 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Index

James-Younger Gang
Diana Oughton § SDS and the Jesse James Gang

Jesse
Frank James
Jesse James
Cole Younger
Missouri
Robbery
gang
outlaws
Jesse James
Frank James
Missouri
Cole
Jim
John
Bob
Clell Miller
Confederate
bushwhackers
Missouri
American Civil War
Russellville, Kentucky
Minnesota
attempt to rob the Northfield First National Bank
Ed
Robert
Charles
American frontier

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