Just like Jesse James
Outlaw Jesse James (partly) turned to crime as a means of
exacting revenge on all things Yankee”— Time-Life Books’ The Wild West.
At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to fight as a
Confederate guerilla in the American Civil War as part of Quantrill’s
Raiders, participating in raids in Kansas. He once killed eight men in a
single day. After the war, he returned to his home state and led one of
history’s most notorious outlaw gangs. He was wounded while
surrendering at the end of the war, and later claimed to have been
forced into outlawry because his family had been persecuted in the war.
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