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  Jesse James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847–April 3, 1882), American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri.
Frank Dalton, who claimed to be Jesse James and resembled him to a degree, died in Granbury, Texas, in 1951 at the age of 103.
The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis gave a 99.7% match to Jesse James.
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 Jesse James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse James had married his own first cousin, named Zerelda after his mother, after a nine-year courtship.
Some stories say he lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma as late as 1948, and a man named, who claimed to be Jesse James, and resembled him to a degree, died in Granbury, Texas in 1951 at the age of 103.
The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis (http://journalsip.astm.org/PDF/JOFS/JFS4610173/JFS4610173.pdf) gave a 99.7% match to Jesse James.
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 Jesse James 1847   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse James City of St. Joseph offers a brief biography on the life of the gun-slinging Jesse James.
Jesse James One-page biography, with photographs, of the James brothers.
James Gang Information on the history of the James Gang, which was led by Jesse James.
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 JAMES Family History: Old West Kansas Families
Jesse Woodson James--Thomas Howard: Jesse James was born 1847 in Missouri, the son of a Baptist minister.
Jesse James was spawned of the Civil War as a Quantrill Raider.
Jesse James was an early citizen of Council Grove.
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 Special Events Photo Album - Jesse James Gang - Jesse James Story - St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Kearney, MO. During the Civil War, the teenager James joined a band of pro-Southern guerrillas under the notorious William Quantrill.
As Jesse James got off the train, he tossed the conductor his gold watch, saying "You'll need this." A posse was organized in Piedmont to go after the gang, but by the time it was organized, the James Gang was over sixty miles away.
In 1997 Jesse's grave was re-opened and it was verified that the remains of the person buried there were those of Jesse James.
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 Encyclopedia: Jesse James 1847   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With his brother Frank James and several other ex-Confederates, including Cole Younger and his brothers, the James gang robbed their way across the Western frontier targeting banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas.
The townspeople returned fire, and all of the members of the gang except for Frank and Jesse James were killed, wounded or captured in a wooded ravine along the Watonwan river just south of La Salle, Minnesota.
The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis gave a 99.7% probability that it was Jesse James.
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Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri.
Jesse was raised by his mother and had a relatively quiet childhood working on the family farm.
Jesse was wounded in a raid in 1865.
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 Jesse James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse Woodson James was born 5 Sep 1847 in Kearney, Clay Co., Missouri and was murdered on 3 April 1882 as he was dusting his home in St. Joseph, MO. His parents were the Rev.
Jesse Woodson James was shot in the back by his longtime friend Robert Ford, "the dirty little coward who shot Mr.
Jesse James and his brother Frank were more than acquaintances to the Potter families living in the 'Flats.
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 Jesse James 1847   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882),American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri.
She and Frank James' wife tried to get the brothers to take on a more normal life, and with a$10,000 reward on his head, Jesse and his wife moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri to hide out, where he lived under the assumed name of Tom Howard and rented ahouse for $14 a month.
The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis gave a99.7% probability that it was Jesse James.
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 Shadows of the Past, Inc., Looks at Jesse James
Jesse is credited for killing Union Major A.V. Johnson; one of the soldiers on the train.
Jesse's legend is embellished when he is placed at the scene as well, contrary to family members reporting him sick in bed, with his chest wound still bothering him.
August 31, 1875 - Jesse Edwards James is born to Zee and Jesse.
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 Lady Belle Outlaw's Jesse James Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse and Jim Younger were with Quantrill's lieutenant, Bloody Bill Anderson, at the Centrallia massacre on September 20, 1864, and Jesse is credited for killing union major A.V. Johnson, when unarmed union soldiers were taken from a train and murdered by Anderson and the gang of ruffians.
Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri on September 5, 1847.
Jesse was described by those who knew him as generous, noble-hearted, intelligent, assertive, good-looking, having a prankish charm and courteous behavior to women.
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 Elder Family History Research - Frank and Jesse James History
Without commenting on the lives that Frank and Jesse James lived, and to what motivated them to lead the kind of lives they led, I include their family in this Volume because they were descended from the DORSEY line.
Jesse and Zee, with their children, were living at St. Joseph, Missouri, since November of 1881.
Jesse was using the name of Thomas Howard, Bob, Charles and Jesse were sitting around the table, having been served breakfast by Zee.
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 Biography of Jesse James
Jesse James was one of history's most well known criminals.
James was born September 5, 1847 in Kearny, Missouri.
One of the greatest downfalls of James’ gang was the robbery in Northfield, Missouri.
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 AllRefer.com - Jesse James (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1866, Jesse and his brother Frank became the leaders of a band of outlaws whose trail of robberies and murders led through most of the central states.
The beginning of their downfall came in 1876 when, after killing two people and failing to secure any money in an attempted bank robbery at Northfield, Minn., they lost several members of the gang, including the Younger brothers, three of their most trusted followers, who were captured and imprisoned (see Younger, Cole).
Frank James surrendered but was twice acquitted and lived out his life peacefully on his farm near Excelsior Springs, Mo. The melodramatic style of the exploits of the James gang attracted wide public admiration, giving rise to a number of romanticized legends, the famous song "The Ballad of Jesse James," and much popular literature.
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 Jesse James
Jesse joins the pro-Confederate guerrillas under the notorious William Quantrill during the Civil War (1861-1865).
Jesse liked to write letters to the sympathetic papers - sympathetic because Jesse was anti-Reconstruction like they were.
All except Frank and Jesse James are killed or wounded and captured.
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 Jesse James, 1847-1882
Jesse and Frank worked as much as small boys could on the farm, helping to plant, and then to hoe corn and other crops.
Vehemently pro-South, Jesse had a temper with which to promote his point of view--both of which he "inherited" from his mother, who spoke first, thought later, and often suggested to Northern-sympathizing neighbors that they ought to go to a place much warmer than the South.
During Jesse's childhood, the border warfare between Kansas and Missouri was at its height.
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 The Outlaw Jesse James
Frank and Jesse had talked about forming a gang with Cole Younger, but Jesse was not with them when they committed their first robbery in February of 1866 at Liberty, Missouri.
Jesse and Frank made good their escape, but had to lay low for over three years.
Jesse was thought to be living in Guthrie, Oklahoma as late as 1948 and that he died at Granbury, Texas.
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 jesse-james   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JESSE JAMES was the film that made Fonda a star.
Johnson researched Jesse James in Missouri, drawing most of his historic notions from the Sedalia Gazette, a strongly pro-James paper which promoted the idea that the notorious lawlessness of the James boys was caused by railroad and Union Army persecution following the Civil War.
Jo Frances James, granddaughter of Jesse James, was hired as a consultant to the production, but she was later disappointed with the film, commenting: 'I don't know what happened to the history part of it.
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/j/jesse-james.html   (372 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
James is often grouped with famous frontier criminals like Billy the Kidd and Butch Cassidy, but he's best understood as a Southerner who forged partisan alliances in postwar Missouri and promoted himself as a latter-day Robin Hood.
With `Jesse James Last Rebel of the Civil War', J. Stiles has given us a most insightful, penetrating, and serious study not just of that outlaw, but more importantly, of the place and times that produced him, and which are necessary for an understanding of who and what he was.
Typical works on Jesse James and the Civil War ignore the great political and pure emotional instability of the Missouri-Kansas border, and how truly personal the war was here, and how it really defined the word "civil war", on par with those in recent years in the Balkans.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jesse James
James, Jesse Woodson (1847-1882), American outlaw, whose exploits, both real and legendary, in bank and train robberies won him worldwide notoriety....
Jesse James (motion picture), box-office hit motion picture about Wild West outlaw Jesse James (1847-1882).
Legends are folk history, and even when dealing with religious subject matter they differ from myth in that they tell about what has happened in the...
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 Jesse James Farm and Museum Kearney, Missouri (Historic Houses)
This is where Jesse James was born in 1847.
The farm where Jesse was buried was in the limel ight during 1995.
Forensic experts exhumed Jesse's body and used genetic testing to prove that Jesse was the person buried in the grave.
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 Jesse James Page Index - St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway - Jackson, Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
he notorious outlaws Frank and Jesse James first tried their hand at train robbery on July 21, 1873.
One conductor admitted using the same pocket knife to cut the umbilical chord of a newborn baby that he had just used to carve a plug of chewing tobacco.
Photo is of Conductor Quincy Adams Gray (1869-1937) who was a conductor on the Frisco Lines in the early 1900's.
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 Jesse James 1847 Definition / Jesse James 1847 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse James 1847 Definition / Jesse James 1847 Research
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3 April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining.
His father, Robert James, was a BaptistBaptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an evangelical, protestant denomination.
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 American Cowboys: Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Willa Cather, The Alamo, Daniel Boone
After more murders and robberies, a $5,000 bounty was placed on each of the brothers' heads for their capture or conviction.
Gang member Robert Ford turned on Jesse and shot him in the head on April 3, 1882 while Jesse stood on a chair straightening a picture on the wall of his home.
He lived on the family farm until 1915 and died in the same room in which he was born.
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 Jesse James, Train Robberies, Confederate
Jesse James was a notorious outlaw who expertly provided the leadership for the James gang for several years
Jesse James and his gang were quite proficient and successful in bank robberies, stage coach robberies and train robberies
Feeling comfortable living incognito Jesse James began to let his guard down and moved to St. Joseph, Missouri.
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 Jesse Woodson JAMES & Zerelda Amanda MIMMS
Because Jesse was already a highly sought-after outlaw, the Reverend William James, brother of Jesse's father, tried to discourage the union, but he failed to do so and finally performed the ceremony.
A "wanted man," Jesse took Zee to Nashville, TN, around 1875 where he hoped they could live in peace under the alias of John Davis Howard.
In Nashville, four children were born to Jesse and Zee.
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 Jesse James 1847 - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesse James 1847 - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
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 Picture History - Dead Jesse James (1847-1882)
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Jesse James was a famous American outlaw who at the age of fifteen joined the Confederate guerilla band led by William Quantrill.
He robbed banks and trains along with his brother Frank until he was shot in 1882 by a member of his gang who was tempted by a reward.
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 MedHist: UK's gateway to resources for the history of medicine
Exhumations of human remains : from Jesse James to John Wilkes Booth to Meriwether Lewis
A lecture to be delivered by James E. Starrs, LLM; the George Washington University Professor of Law and Forensic Sciences.
Lewis, Meriwether 1774-1809; James, Jesse 1847-1882; Booth, John Wilkes 1838-1865;
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