Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of state-funded secret police. But Thomas Crittenden knew that to catch a ...

Testing established a 99.7 percent certainty that the body buried in Kearney was, indeed, the famous outlaw. Ron Pastore, who opened the Jesse James Museum in Wichita, has had a Kansas man exhumed ...

His new vehicle is called Jesse James is a Dead Man, which isn't totally accurate unless you're referring to his namesake forbear. The world needs another "reality" TV show like we need a ...

Rosenwald James Carlos Blake, whose savage ... reimagined the life of the Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin.Credit...Grove Press Mr. Blake published his debut novel, “The Pistoleer,” in 1995.

But he read about it. He read about Jesse James," said Yazbek, who is credited with conceiving "Dead Outlaw." "It was his idea to rob a train — the hardest possible thing to rob, but also the ...

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination ... this revealing exposé traces the outlaw's life from his humble Southern childhood through ...