Allan Pinkerton was furious when he got the news. Joseph Whicher, a trusted agent of Pinkerton's National Detective agency, had been discovered in the Missouri woods, bound, tortured and shot dead—yet ...

In the late 1940s, J. Frank Dalton made a startling announcement: He said that the outlaw Jesse James had not been killed by Bob Ford in 1882. According to Dalton, the entire thing was a hoax, and he, ...

Mention the James gang and immediately all thoughts go to Jesse James. Jesse’s singular notoriety continues to live on despite the fact that there were other members of the gang. His brother, Frank, ...

Jun. 13—GARRETSON, S.D. — In 1876, legendary outlaw Jesse James and his brother Frank were on the run after committing a bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota. Chased by a posse, the two Missouri ...

Good bye, Jesse James; a reprinting of six of the best news stories concerning the career and death of America's most famous outlaw, first printed in the Kansas City Daily Journal in 1882. Compiled ...

Outlaw Jesse James was a legend in his own lifetime. Then he climbed on a living room chair to straighten a picture, and his ...