Based solely on longevity, Jesse James was one of America's most successful ... a group of armed men taking control of a train, the symbol of modern life. It was a smart way to rob, since the ...

The mythology of a dashing foe recast as a symbol of resistance has taken ... who died roughly a century before I was born. Jesse Woodson James was a prolific bank and train robber who was shot ...

In the aftermath of the failed Northfield bank robbery of 1876, Frank and Jesse James were forced to hide under assumed names in Tennessee. Jesse chafed at the lack of attention, and in 1879 he ...