Pinkertons bomb the home of the James boys. January 25-26, 1875. Pinkerton agents attack a farmhouse outside Kearney, Missouri. It is owned by the...
An Act of Terror
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A Pinkerton Plan Blows Up
Detectives bomb the James farm and have a p.r. nightmare. January 25-26, 1875. Pinkerton agents attack a farmhouse outside Kearney, Missouri. It is...
An Outlaw Give-Back
A woman shames members of the James-Younger Gang. August 30, 1874. Frank and Jesse James and one of the Youngers rob a stage outside North...
The Social Bandits
By the latter part of the nineteenth century train robberies had become big business among western outlaws. During one period trains were being...
Truth or Adair
The James-Younger Gang turns to train robbery. A half dozen men crouched next to the railroad tracks near Adair, Iowa, on July 21, 1873. The Rock...
How did Frank and Jessie James Manage to Spend all that Loot?
As with similar stories about Old West outlaws, we hear about the banks and trains they robbed and the amounts of money they stole. Take Jesse and...
The Ill-Fated McDaniel Brothers
Both outlaws; both paid the price. Brothers Tom and Bud McDaniel both rode with the James-Younger Gang. Bud died after a jail break in the summer of...
More Favorite Smoke Wagons
Reading the pulp westerns one would conclude that the Colt revolver was the only pistol used in the Old West. Remington built a fine six-shooter and...
A Detour From the Outlaw Trail
Frank James’ brief retirement brought peace and contentment. For Frank James, the years just after the James-Younger Gang’s disastrous raid on...
A Bad Marriage Zerelda James’ second union was a disaster.
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...
A Coincidence Of Crime Nimrod Long ran into the James family twice.
March 20, 1868. A group of robbers—which would evolve into the James-Younger Gang—hit the Nimrod Long Bank in Russellville, Kentucky. Bank...
Who Shot Joe Heywood In The Northfield Bank Robbery? 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 Jesse James?
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...