National Geographic History - 01.2019 - 02.2019
a devoted mother, coming of age in a land torn apart over slavery and divided loyalties. Jesse’s parents, Kentucky natives, met ...
On a trip to visit Zerelda’s mother and step- father in western Missouri the next year, the couple liked the fertile country, an ...
Samuel, a doctor and fellow Kentuckian, whom she married in 1855. The woods and fields of Clay County were the James boys’ playg ...
everybody was a spy for his side,” Frank James recalled about the atmosphere in Clay Coun- ty during the war. “You were for the ...
shot spies. So does everybody. If we hadn’t we wouldn’t have lasted a week.” Jesse was wounded twice that summer. The more serio ...
bushwhackers sacked the town of Centralia, Missouri, and murdered 24 Federals on furlough who had the misfortune of being on a t ...
A Band of Younger Brothers THE FOUR YOUNGERS,Cole, Jim, John, and Bob, were the sons of the prosperous Missouri farmer, mer- cha ...
was threatened daily,”Jesse later told a journalist about his return to the Clay County farm,“and I was forced to go heavily arm ...
its rider, forcing the two to escape on a single mount. During their flight through the country, the robbers boasted to more tha ...
think I can get a fair trial, I will surrender myself to the civil authorities of Missouri. But I will never surrender myself to ...
IN FILM. Since the 1908 silent movie The James Boys in Missouri, some 50 feature films have centered on Jesse James. Left, the p ...
IN SONG.Songwriting duo Lewis and Klickman copyrighted their composition about James in 1911 (below), riding the huge popularity ...
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