JESSE JAMES: "GOOD TIMES" AND SORRY END

Then, in 1873 the JAMES gang robbed a train for the first time (Adair, Iowa), but they were unlucky, for they captured just 3000 dollars. Later, a train passed by with 75 000 dollars!
The St. Louis Midland Railroad finally offered a reward of 25 000 dollars. 1874 a gunfight in Monegaw Springs took place, where the Pinkerton man Lull and Sheriff Daniels were shot as well as JOHN YOUNGER. One year after this, the Pinkerton-men threw a bomb (explosive) into the house of the JAMES family. Their mother and little stepbrother were seriously injured by this.
1876: Hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, 3 gang members killed, the YOUNGER brothers captured.
(BOB died in prison in 1889; COLE and JAMES were released in 1901; JAMES committed suicided short after and COLE died in 1916.)
After a period on the run, the JAMES family settled down in St. Joseph.
On the 3rd April, 1882, ROBERT and CHARLIE FORD were in the house of JESSE. As it was hot, JESSE put off his jacket, vest and weapons, a Smith & Wesson and a colt, and laid them on the bed. Dusting some pictures on the wall, he was shot from behind by ROBERT FORD. The FORDS had no personal reasons for this. They only did it for the reward.
Many people came to JESSE'S burial. On his headstone are the words:
JESSE W. JAMES, died April 3, 1882,
aged 34 years, six months, 28 days
murdered by a coward whose name is
not worth to appear here.
BOB FORD, however, didn't escape from his destiny. After appearances in wildwest shows, where he showed off with his "glory", he was killed in 1893 by a relative of the YOUNGERS.
FRANK was now the only survivor of the JAMES gang. After a law-suit he was acquitted. FRANK helped ROOSEVELT in his election campaign and appeared in wildwest shows. He died in 1915.
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LIT: H. C. BLUMENBERG, see above.
       TH. RIPLEY: They died with their boots on, N. Y. 1935.
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On the first night of the first JESSE-JAMES-film a granddaughter was there declaring that the man on the screen rode a horse and was called JESSE JAMES being the only similiarities to my grandfather.
English text by "nova-aetas".

JesseJames im Film...

...und in Natura!