Many Missourians longed for peace and welcomed the end of the Civil War, but Frank and Jesse James were not among them. Unable to accept defeat and seething with resentment at Republican laws that ...

to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers who owned six slaves. When the Civil War came, young Jesse watched his older brother Frank march off to fight for the rebellion — and likely chafed ...

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 ...