Although Frank was the first of the James brothers to ride off to war, he was also the first to tire of it. Lacking his brother Jesse's incessant need for attention, Frank chose to give up crime ...

Aside from family lore, there is verification of the claim of James’ presence in Simpson County from an 1897 (Nashville) Tennessean newspaper article. The article recounts Frank and Jesse James ...

son of Baptist minister and slaveholder Robert James and his wife Zerelda. Jesse is almost five years younger than his brother Frank and two years older than his sister Susan. President James ...

KEARNEY, MO.? The last time someone tried to prove that Jesse James’ body was buried somewhere besides western Missouri, they dug up the wrong body. So folks at the Jesse James Farm and Museum ...

After Jesse James is wounded by a bullet to the chest, Frank James splits the gang up and plans a rendezvous in four days time. With U.S.-Marshall Kane in hot pursuit, and betrayal within the ...

At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago ...

The James Gang, led by brothers Jesse and Frank James, and their families lived Nashville. Why it matters: The National Trust for Historic Preservation summarizes the grip the James Gang held over ...