The Tragic Life Of Notorious Outlaw Jesse James

Everybody's heard of the legendary outlaw Jesse James thanks to the many movies and TV shows dramatizing his life. But how much of the legend is true, and how much is nonsense? This is the life and tragic death of Jesse James.

The man who would become a fearsome outlaw started out like everyone else - first and foremost, as a baby. He was born Jesse Woodson James to the Reverend Robert James, a Baptist minister and successful farmer, and Zerelda Cole James in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847.

According to History, Robert died in the fall or winter of 1850, on a trip to preach in the goldfields of California. A widow at the age of 28 with three children to feed, Zerelda knew that finding another husband was key to her survival. She married Benjamin Simms in 1852 and after he died just two years later, Zerelda married Reuben Samuel in 1855.

The world of the James children was rocked by their father's death, their mother's poverty, and her subsequent marriages. Things only got more complicated when, in 1863, a group of Union militiamen converged on the family farm. They were looking for Jesse's brother Frank, who was a member of a Confederate guerrilla gang commonly known as 'bushwhackers’ which engaged in attacking Union sympathizers as the Civil War raged. Young Jesse was ambushed and whipped by militia soldiers, and Reuben Samuel was hanged from a tree and tortured. Samuel survived, but Jesse became determined to join his brother and fight for the South.

Soon after the attack on the family farm, Jesse James joined the war. The National Park Service's documentation of the Civil War confirms that Jesse signed up with the Confederate 4th Regiment of the Missouri Infantry. Within a year he had joined his brother Frank, whose guerrilla gang was headed by William "Bloody Bill" Anderson.

In September of 1864, the notorious group robbed a Union congressman, James S. Collins, before raiding a Union passenger train. On board were 22 furloughed soldiers who had surrendered, according to History. Anderson's gang ordered the men from the train, and mercilessly murdered each of them. The Union 39th Missouri Volunteer Infantry set out in pursuit of Anderson's gang, but was ambushed at Centralia, Missouri by the guerrillas. Anderson's men killed over 100 soldiers. The bodies of the dead were mutilated, while the survivors were brutally tortured. The battle, in which both Frank and Jesse participated, was later called the Centralia Massacre. Jesse was only 16-years-old. Keep watching the video to see the tragic life of notorious outlaw Jesse James.

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The making of an outlaw | 0:13
Jesse and the Civil War | 1:29
He was no Robin Hood | 2:45
Robberies, marriage, and a raid | 4:06
A request for peace | 5:24
Failed bank robbery in Minnesota | 6:17
Crime spree and supposed death | 7:31
His nasty temper | 8:42
A book and a deal | 9:24
The death of Jesse James | 10:09
James' legacy and Bob Ford | 11:13

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