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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.
In July 1873, Jesse and Frank James robbed a train in Adair, Iowa, and stole $6,000 (equivalent to $140,000 in 2023) [1] in cash. However, they soon ran out of money and began plotting a new train robbery. By now, the gang had acquired new members, including the three oldest Younger brothers. [3] [self-published source]
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 ...
Jesse and Frank James: The brothers committed their last robbery and stole $1,000 - $3,000 from the train. Bellevue, Texas: 11 December, 1886 Rube Burrow, Jim Burrow, W.L. Brock, Leonard Brock, Henderson Brumley, and Nep Thornton Rube and the men robbed a Denver & Fort Worth Express train in Bellevue, Texas.
The town was a train station on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway line and was the location of the Gads Hill Train Robbery, the first train robbery in Missouri, which took place on January 31, 1874. [4] At 3:00 in the afternoon, the James-Younger gang boarded the train and proceeded to rob the passengers. While the exact amount ...
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), another biopic; In the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2, train robberies are a source of income for the player. [44] One of the game's cutscenes recreated the opening train robbery scene in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford shot-for-shot. [45]
In 1881, young starstruck Robert "Bob" Ford seeks out Jesse James when the James Gang is planning a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri, making unsuccessful attempts to join the gang with the help of his older brother Charley, already a member.
Bob Younger is believed to have first joined the gang in 1873. He was likely involved in the James-Younger Gang's first train robbery on July 21, 1873. [2] The robbery of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad took place in Adair, Iowa, yielded about $3,000, and resulted in the death of an engineer during derailment of the train. [2]