On This Day December 7

The outlaw Jesse James first became famous on December 7, 1869, when he and his brother Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. The robbery netted little money, but the daring escape he and his brother made through the middle of a posse shortly afterward, put his name in the newspapers for the first time.

Jesse James portrait

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