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Jesse James was born in 1847 and was a famous outlaw of the Old West. Union soldiers ransacked his family farm in Missouri in 1863 and Jesse vowed to seek revenge along with his brother, Frank James. Together, they joined a group of Confederate guerilla soldier’s.
After the war, James assembled a gang known as the James-Younger Gang (named thus because there were four Younger brothers, in addition to the two James brothers). Out of anger about the post-Civil War laws, the gang fought back the only way they knew how by robbing banks, trains, and stagecoaches owned and controlled by Northern companies.
The Younger-James gang murdered anyone that interfered with their crime spree, during which members of the gang robbed more than a dozen banks and trains and reportedly pocketed two hundred thousand dollars.
You may think these robbers would be hated for their crimes but the Missourian’s supported the James-Younger Gang for their loyalty to the Confederacy. But the support of the gang was short-lived after James shot an innocent man in the heart. They had robbed a bank in Gallatin, Missouri on December 7, 1869 and for reasons best known to him, Jesse James got it in
his head that one of the bankers had killed Bloody Bill Anderson, a leader of the Confederate guerilla group, Quantrill’s Raiders and shot the banker in the heart. The public were angered by this cold-blooded killing and the newspapers called for justice. Bounty’s were placed on James head and the authorities went on a manhunt for him.
One of the gang members of the gang, decided to kill Jesse James for a couple of reasons. First he wanted the ten thousand dollars bounty on his head and second was he was a glory seeker and wanted credit for killing his comrade.
He and his brother, Charley went to Jame’s house on April 3, 1882, under the cover of planning a bank robbery. When the Ford brothers came to Jame’s house, he stood up to wipe down a dusty picture on the wall in his living room, and Robert shot him in the back of the head.
Following his death in 1882, his corpse was preserved in ice and put on display. After he died and before his body was collected, people swarmed his house to have a glimpse of his murdered body and continued to do so after he was taken away. The Funeral Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri displays the wicker coffin that removed James’ body from the room in which he was killed to Heaton-Bowman-Smith home.
The museum also shows his ice casket. During the 1800, ice casket’s kept bodies cool before embalming became common and the ice included a window on top that allowed people to view the deceased person’s face without having to open it.
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