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Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the " Little Dixie " area of Missouri , James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies.
Robert Newton Ford (December 8, 1861 – June 8, 1892) [1] was an American outlaw who killed fellow outlaw Jesse James on April 3, 1882. He and his brother Charley, both members of the James–Younger Gang under James's leadership, went on to perform paid re-enactments of the killing at publicity events.
Wood Hite was born in about 1850 in Logan, Kentucky, to Major George Burns and Nancy Gardner Hite (nee James).His mother was the sister of Robert Sallee James, the father of Frank and Jesse James of the James-Younger Gang, making Wood a first cousin to the James brothers.
On July 15, 1881, Frank and Jesse James, Wood and Clarence Hite, and Dick Liddil robbed the Rock Island Railroad near Winston, Missouri, of $900. Train conductor William Westfall and passenger John McCullough were killed. [15] On September 7, 1881, Jesse James carried out his last train robbery, holding up the Chicago and Alton Railroad. The ...
Edward Capehart O'Kelley (October 1, 1857 [2] – January 13, 1904) was an American murderer who killed Robert Ford, who had killed the famous outlaw Jesse James to receive a bounty. O'Kelley was the subject of a 1994 book by his great-great-niece. [3]
Charles Wilson Ford (July 9, 1857 – May 6, 1884) was an American outlaw and a member of the James Gang. [1] He was the lesser known older brother of Robert Ford, the killer of Jesse James. [2] [3] Charley Ford was introduced to Jesse and Frank James by Wood Hite and joined the gang in 1881 at the same time as his brother. [4]
Settle, William A. Jr, Jesse James Was His Name, or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri (University of Nebraska Press, 1977) Steele, Phillip W., Jesse and Frank James: The Family History (Pelican Publishing, 1987) Stiles, T.J., Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
1957, Jeffrey Hunter in The True Story of Jesse James. 1959, Jim Davis in Alias Jesse James; 1960, Robert Dix in Young Jesse James. 1965–66, Allen Case in The Legend of Jesse James. 1972, John Pierce in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. 1977, John Bennett Perry in an episode of Little House on the Prairie.