On the afternoon of February 13, 1866, two men clad in Union Blue stepped inside a bank in Liberty, Missouri.

They paused to warm themselves by the stove before mosying up and asking the clerk to break a tin.

As soon as the man reached for the money, the bandits drew their sidearms, jumped across the counter.

Forced the employees to the vault and made them start filling bags with an

assortment of gold, silver, and good old American greenbacks. Then as the outlaws were making

their getaway, they shot and killed an innocent bystander, a teenager who had the misfortune

of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's estimated that there were 13 men total

who participated in the robbery, and their haul was a whopping $58,072.62, and 64 cents, or adjusted for inflation a little over a million in today's money.

As for the robbers, they made a beeline to the town of Centerville, where they divvied up the loot, and from there, they vanished, having pulled off the very first daytime bank robbery in U.S. history.

At least the first to occur during peacetime.

Only question is, who did it?

My name's Josh and this is the Wild West extravaganza.

Yeah. Acknowanza. The outlaw Jesse James got his start during the Civil War as a young bushwhacker,

fighting under the likes of William Quontrell and Bloody Bill Anderson.

Killed his first man at the age of 16 and kept rod on a killing, even after the war was

officially over. And despite still recuperating from a near-fatal gunshot wound to the chest,

there are many who think that it was Jesse who was responsible for holding up that bank in liberty.

That said, truth is, we still don't really know whether or not Jesse or even his brother Frank were involved.

Many of their associates were, though.

Former guerrillas who likewise rode with Quantrell and Anderson, and that bank heist in Liberty would be followed by a series of similar copycat robberies.

Just 10 months later, a bank in Lexington was likewise robbed.

Once again, we don't know if Jesse was involved, but his old pal Dave Poole certainly was. Then on March 1st, 1867, there was an

...