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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: 1860 crimes, 1861 crimes, 1862 crimes, 1863 crimes, 1864 crimes, 1865 crimes, 1866 crimes, 1867 crimes, 1868 crimes, 1869 crimes, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Kate Warne, David Owen Dodd, Henry Wirz, William P. Longley, Tom Dula, Cole Younger, Little Crow, Mary Ann Cotton, Princess Anka Obrenovi, Black Kettle, Chief Niwot, Maungatapu murders, Fanny Adams, Michael Barrett, Marcellus Jerome Clarke, Dahlgren Affair, Albert W. Hicks, Champ Ferguson, Mangas Coloradas, Edward William Pritchard, Archie Clement, Nathaniel Gordon, Mihailo Obrenovi III, Prince of Serbia, John P. Slough, Henry James O'Farrell, William Bruce Mumford, We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee, Dmitry Karakozov, Ferdinand Cohen-Blind, Chipita Rodriguez, Lean Bear, Antoni Berezowski, Bernard Friery, Chief Kitsap, Big Mouth, Pulaski Riot, Ulric Dahlgren, 1868 North Carolina railroad bonds scandal, Sandyford murder case, David Vann. Excerpt: Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or alleged economic justice. Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no e...
