Jesse James was a hero and a villain of the wild west. He was born on September 5, 1847 and his dad was a preacher in Missouri. ‘‘Jesse’s dad went to California for the gold rush and that was the last time Jesse James saw his dad’’. Jesse was only a teen when the civil war started in 1861. Jesse and his brother took part in the outlaw soldier battles between the Confederate and Union soldiers.(Hamilton) Jesse James found himself a new career, him and his gang strolled into Clay County Savings and Loan Bank in Missouri and robbed it with 60,000 dollars. The gang covered a lot of territory in seven states robbing banks. They never got caught because they always plotted their escapes before they robbed the place. The gang only staged one or two
