Slave-Owning Family Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers ... while wearing the general outlaw's mantle. "We are not thieves ...

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 ...

Taking place in Missouri in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in ...

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 ...

Frank's activities with a band of pro-Confederate guerrillas brought the wrath of Union militiamen to the James family ... the outlaw down and collect a $10,000 reward. On April 3, 1882, Jesse ...