Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of state-funded secret police. But Thomas Crittenden knew that to catch a ...

Testing established a 99.7 percent certainty that the body buried in Kearney was, indeed, the famous outlaw. Ron Pastore, who opened the Jesse James Museum in Wichita, has had a Kansas man exhumed ...

His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of ...

If you were to ask any historian what their favorite time period is, you’d likely get some “high fluting” answer about revolutions in France or eras of social/political upheavals. If you ...

But he read about it. He read about Jesse James," said Yazbek, who is credited with conceiving "Dead Outlaw." "It was his idea to rob a train — the hardest possible thing to rob, but also the ...

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination ... this revealing exposé traces the outlaw's life from his humble Southern childhood through ...