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Jesse James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber,

and leader of the James Younger Gang,

raised in the little Dixie area of Western Missouri,

and the James and his family maintained strong southern sympathies.

He and his brother, Frank James, joined pro-Confederate Bushwackers,

as they were called, operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War,

and were followers of William Control and Bloody Bill Anderson.

According to legend, we're going to separate some facts from fiction a little bit later.

They were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists,

including a massacre that supposedly took place in 1864, the Centralia Massacre.

After the war, as members of various gangs, about lost Jesse and Frank Robb Banks,

stage coaches, trains across the Midwest, gaining national fame,

and often popular sympathy.

And the James brothers were most active as members of their own gang,

from about 1866 until 1876,

when as a result of their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota,

several members of the gang were captured or killed.

They continued in crime for several years afterwards, recruiting new members,

but came under increasing pressure from law enforcement seeking to bring them to justice.

And then, according to the official narrative on April 3rd, 1882,

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