"Frank and Jesse Frank and Jesse (also known as Frank & Jesse) is a 1994 American biographical western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James. Based on the story of Jesse James, the film focuses more on the myth of ""The James Brothers"" than the real history. It originally aired on HBO. Following the American Civil War, the two James brothers, along with the Younger brothers - Cole Younger (played by Randy Travis) and Bob Younger (Todd Field), Bob Ford (Jim Flowers) and Charles Ford (Alexis Arquette),"
"Bersheba Leighton Fristoe Bersheba Fristoe Younger, born Bersheba Leighton Fristoe (June 6, 1816 – June 6, 1870) was an American woman who was the mother of the famed Younger Outlaws Cole, Jim, John and Bob. She was born in McMinnville, Tennessee, the daughter of judge Richard Marshall Fristoe and Mary L. Fristoe. (née Sullivan) She married Henry Washington Younger in about 1830 and bore 14 children from 1832 to 1857. Throughout the 1860s she suffered many tragedies; in 1862 Henry was shot dead. He was brought home and buried in an unmarked grave. Also the Younger boys were being targeted"
"of outlaws, which led to the 25-year prison sentence they would serve at the Minnesota State Prison. Cole was released from prison and returned to Lee’s Summit to live the life of a “model citizen”. He died in 1916 with 11 bullets still embedded in his body. Cole was buried in lot #12, with his brothers Jim and Bob and his mother, Bursheba, also buried nearby. There are thousands of others who have made LSHC their final resting place. The remains of those who could not afford to purchase a family lot are buried in a potter’s field. Many of"
"John Sontag John Sontag (May 27, 1861 - July 3, 1893) was an outlaw of the American West known mostly for train robberies. He was originally from Mankato, Minnesota. Sontag was the older of two sons of Jacob Contant and the former Maria Bohn. After the death of his father in 1867, he took the name John Sontag from his stepfather, Matthias Sontag, his mother's second husband, a veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War. Sontag's younger brother, George (born 1864), kept the name Contant. The two were frequent partners in crime and known as The Sontag Brothers."
"and his son-in-law Adelbert Ames. General Ames had just stepped down as Governor of Mississippi, where he had been strongly identified with civil rights for freedmen. He had recently moved to Northfield, where his father owned the mill on the Cannon River and had a large amount of stock in the bank. One of the outlaws ""had a spite"" against Ames, Bob said. Cole Younger said much the same thing years later and recalled greeting ""General Ames"" on the street in Northfield just before the robbery. Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, Frank and Jesse James, Charlie Pitts, Clell Miller and"
"American Outlaws American Outlaws is a 2001 Western film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, and Ali Larter. A group of Confederate guerillas are trying to raid the Union Army, very late in the American Civil War. The southerners are ambushed, but thanks to the sharp-shooting of Frank James (Gabriel Macht) and the distracting and at the same time clever antics of Jesse James (Colin Farrell), the guerillas manage to survive and pull through. The James brothers, along with their war buddies, the Younger brothers, congratulate themselves, but (during the ride to reconnect with their unit)"
"revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, ""American Outlaws"" is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James"". American Outlaws American Outlaws is a 2001 Western film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, and Ali Larter. A group of Confederate guerillas are trying to raid the Union Army, very late in the American Civil War. The southerners are ambushed, but thanks to the sharp-shooting of Frank James (Gabriel Macht) and the distracting and at the same time clever antics of Jesse James (Colin Farrell), the guerillas manage to survive and pull through. The James brothers,"
"Jim Reed (outlaw) Jim Reed (1845-1874) was a member of the Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War, just like James brothers (Jesse and Frank James) and the Youngers (Jim, John, Bob and Cole). He was killed by a law officer in Paris, Texas in 1874. Belle Starr fought with his brother John Allison ""Bud"" when she met his sweetheart Jim Reed when his family moved to Texas. They met after a bank robbery in Missouri in 1866. They got married on 1 November 1866 in Collin County, Texas. Then they ran away to Missouri and she became his common-law"
"Clarke brothers Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales. They committed a series of high-profile crimes which led to the embedding of the ""Felons' Apprehension Act (1866)"", a law that introduced the concept of outlawry in the colony and authorised citizens to kill bushrangers on sight. Active in the southern goldfields from 1865 until their capture, Thomas and John were joined for a time by their brother James and several associates. They were responsible for a reported 71 robberies"
"Robert Ford (outlaw) Robert Newton Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was an American outlaw best known for killing his gang leader Jesse James in April 1882, to collect a reward and a promised amnesty for past crimes. For about a year, Ford and his older brother Charles performed paid re-enactments of the killing at publicity events. Later he drifted around the West, operating saloons and dance halls. Ford was shot to death at the age of 30 in Creede, Colorado, by Edward Capehart O'Kelley, who attacked him in Ford's temporary tent saloon. Ford was first buried in"
"James–Younger Gang The James–Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that centered around Jesse James and his brother Frank James. The gang was based in the state of Missouri, the home of most of the members. Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months. As well as the notorious James brothers, at various times it included the Younger brothers (Cole, Jim, John, and Bob), John Jarrett (married to the Youngers' sister Josie), Arthur McCoy, George Shepard, Oliver Shepard, William McDaniel, Tom McDaniel, Clell Miller, Charlie Pitts (born Samuel A."
"census throughout the Old West as John Collins, John Graham and Abraham Graham with wives and children. ""Shotgun"" Collins was buried in an unmarked grave under his given name Abe Graham in the Catholic Section of El Paso's Concordia Cemetery, the same section in which his old partners John Wesley Hardin and John Selman were buried. Grave Direction: {Gateway West Gate Entrance} Immediate to right by Concordia Wall to Jewish Wall, Section X, Lot 7, and Grave 6. Collins was also allegedly cousins with Tombstone's ""Curly Bill"" Brocius, king of the outlaws. The outlaw cousins were sometimes partners, always pals"
"killed by Deputy Marshal William Bartling Murrill. His death marked the beginning of the downfall of the Wild Bunch Gang. William Blake (outlaw) William ""Tulsa Jack"" Blake (c. 1859 - April 4, 1895) was an American outlaw of the Old West, and member of the Wild Bunch gang. He had been a cowboy in Kansas through the 1880s, before drifting into Oklahoma Territory, where in 1892 he met outlaw Bill Doolin, and joined Doolin's Wild Bunch gang, sometimes called the Oklahombres, or the Doolin-Dalton Gang. On the night of April 3, 1895 this gang decided to rob a southbound Rock"
"James, Paul Frees as Charley Ford, and Sam Edwards as Robert Ford. Jesse James Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the ""Little Dixie"" area of western Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as ""bushwhackers"" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and ""Bloody Bill"" Anderson, they were accused of participating in atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the"
"turned to crime after not being paid as lawmen. Their middle brother William M. ""Bill"" Dalton also had a career as an outlaw, but he rode with the Wild Bunch. The gangs were related through their mother to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James. The Daltons were active later and independently of the James-Younger Gang. Their father was Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri, when he married Adeline Younger. She became an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. The Dalton boys were born in quick succession: Frank (1859), Gratton"
"heading to their area, and women and children were brought together in towns for safety while men in their local area joined the pursuit. Business was at a standstill in many places in the Wollar/Denman/Merriwa areas. In particular, Jimmy first targeted the area of the Goulburn River around Wollar where he had once worked, to settle scores with men who had treated him badly. As the brothers outwitted and even taunted the police and trackers hunting them, public pressure grew for the police to capture them. They were proclaimed outlaws on 23 October 1900, the last persons to be so"
"William Blake (outlaw) William ""Tulsa Jack"" Blake (c. 1859 - April 4, 1895) was an American outlaw of the Old West, and member of the Wild Bunch gang. He had been a cowboy in Kansas through the 1880s, before drifting into Oklahoma Territory, where in 1892 he met outlaw Bill Doolin, and joined Doolin's Wild Bunch gang, sometimes called the Oklahombres, or the Doolin-Dalton Gang. On the night of April 3, 1895 this gang decided to rob a southbound Rock Island train. The five of them stormed the train and ordered it to be opened. When messenger J.W. Jones refused"
"brother Bob Christian. He first earned the nickname ""202"" due to his large frame. However, he quickly became better known as ""Black Jack"" due to his tendency to have a short temper. During this time of the late 1880s and early 1890s, he and his brother Bob organized the ""High Fives Gang"", operating mostly around New Mexico Territory. In 1895, while the two brothers were in Guthrie, Oklahoma, they shot and killed a lawman, and were arrested. They escaped with the assistance of their gang and fled to Arizona Territory. The following year, with the help of a wealthy rancher"
"Harpe brothers Micajah ""Big"" Harpe, born Joshua Harper (before 1768 – August 1799), and Wiley ""Little"" Harpe, born William Harper (before 1770 – February 8, 1804), were murderers, highwaymen, and river pirates who operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi in the late 18th century. They are often considered the earliest documented serial killers in the United States, reckoned from the colonial era forward. Loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution, the Harpes became outlaws after the war and began robbing and killing settlers in the remote frontier west of the Appalachian Mountains. They are believed to have"
"William M. Dalton William Marion Dalton (1866–June 8, 1894), called Bill Dalton, was an American outlaw in the American Old West. He was the co-leader of the Wild Bunch gang and he was the brother of the founders of the Dalton Gang, Gratton, Bob and Emmett. Dalton was born in Kansas. For a time, he was one of the two success stories of the Dalton family, for a time being a member of the California legislature. His older brother Frank Dalton was a highly respected Deputy US Marshal. However, by 1890 he was tired of politics, and joined his brothers"
"an outlaw group known as the Cowboys, who were cattle rustlers and bandits, claimed to have been at the ambush. He said others there, who participated in the murders, were Old Man Clanton, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, ""Curly Bill"" Brocius, Florentino Cruz, brothers Frank and Tom McLaury, Jim Hughes, Rattlesnake Bill; Joe Hill; Charlie Snow; Jake Guage; and Charlie Thomas. In July 1881, ""Curly Bill"" Brocius learned that several Mexican smugglers carrying silver were heading to the United States through Skeleton Canyon. Curly Bill and several other men including Johnny Ringo, Newman Haynes Clanton, Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Frank"
"others had been killed or apprehended. Wilbur Underhill Jr. Wilbur Underhill Jr. (March 16, 1901 – January 6, 1934), often called ""Mad Dog"" or the ""Tri-State Terror"", was an American criminal, burglar, bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was one of the most wanted bandits in Oklahoma during the 1920s and 1930s and co-led a gang with Harvey Bailey that included many fellow Cookson Hills outlaws including Jim Clark, Ed Davis and Robert ""Big Bob"" Brady. Wilbur Underhill Jr. was born Joplin, Missouri on March 16, 1901, one of seven children. His three older brothers Earl, George and Ernest all"
"Crawford Goldsby Crawford Goldsby (February 8, 1876 – March 17, 1896) was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of eight men (including his brother-in-law), he and his gang terrorized the Indian Territory for over two years. Goldsby was born to Sgt. George and Ellen (née Beck) Goldsby on February 8, 1876 at Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas. Goldsby's father, George Goldsby, was a mulatto from Perry County, Alabama, a sergeant of the Tenth United States Cavalry, and a Buffalo Soldier. Goldsby's mother was a Cherokee freedman, with mixed African, Indian and"
"Wilbur Underhill Jr. Wilbur Underhill Jr. (March 16, 1901 – January 6, 1934), often called ""Mad Dog"" or the ""Tri-State Terror"", was an American criminal, burglar, bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was one of the most wanted bandits in Oklahoma during the 1920s and 1930s and co-led a gang with Harvey Bailey that included many fellow Cookson Hills outlaws including Jim Clark, Ed Davis and Robert ""Big Bob"" Brady. Wilbur Underhill Jr. was born Joplin, Missouri on March 16, 1901, one of seven children. His three older brothers Earl, George and Ernest all became career criminals, though none gained"
"George Contant George C. Contant, aka George Contant Sontag (April 10, 1864 - date of death unknown), was an outlaw of the American West known mostly for train robberies. Like his older brother, John Sontag, he was originally from Mankato, Minnesota. Contant was the younger of two sons of Jacob Contant and the former Maria Bohn. After the death of their father in 1867, John Sontag took the surname of his stepfather, Matthias Sontag, his mother's second husband, a veteran of the Union Army during the American Civil War. George Contant however kept the original name though the two were"
"Frontier Outlaws Frontier Outlaws is a 1944 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield shot at the Corriganville Movie Ranch. It was the second film in Producers Releasing Corporation's Billy the Kid film series where Crabbe changed his name to ""Billy Carson"". A gang of cattle rustlers and claim jumpers are terrorising the town of Wolf Valley and hire a fast gun to get rid of Billy Carson by running him out of town. To the villain's surprise Billy comes to a saloon frequented by the villains and runs the frightened gunslinger out of town. When the gunslinger tries to"
"Doan Outlaws The Doan Outlaws, also known as the ""Doan Boys"" and ""Plumstead Cowboys"", were a notorious gang of brothers from a Quaker family most renowned for being British spies during the American Revolutionary War. The Doans were Loyalists from a Quaker family of good standing. The ""Doan Boys"" reached manhood at the time of the American Revolutionary War. Growing up in Plumstead, Pennsylvania, the Doans excelled athletically. The Doan gang's principal occupation was robbing Whig tax collectors and horse theft. The gang stole over 200 horses from their neighbors in Bucks County that they sold to the Red Coats"
"wife. They got a child in 1868 named Rosie Lee and the couple broke up when Reed met another woman named Rosa McCommas. Jim Reed appears in the videogame """" (2013), where he is revenged by Silas Greaves. Jim Reed (outlaw) Jim Reed (1845-1874) was a member of the Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War, just like James brothers (Jesse and Frank James) and the Youngers (Jim, John, Bob and Cole). He was killed by a law officer in Paris, Texas in 1874. Belle Starr fought with his brother John Allison ""Bud"" when she met his sweetheart Jim Reed"
"Dunn Brothers (bounty hunters) The Dunn Brothers were a group of brothers from Pawnee, Oklahoma who worked as Old West bounty hunters. They are best known for having killed George ""Bittercreek"" Newcomb and Charley Pierce, members of the Wild Bunch. The brothers - Bee, Calvin, Dal, George and Bill Dunn - ran a boarding house near Ingalls and a meat market in Pawnee. Bill Dunn was the leader, and the oldest of the brothers. By the 1890s the Dunn brothers were working as bounty hunters, although they had been involved in cattle rustling and robbery. Their teenaged sister Rose became"
"ruled self defense. Bill Dunn's death effectively ended the bounty hunting for the Dunn brothers, as their already-questionable reputations suffered greatly. Dunn Brothers (bounty hunters) The Dunn Brothers were a group of brothers from Pawnee, Oklahoma who worked as Old West bounty hunters. They are best known for having killed George ""Bittercreek"" Newcomb and Charley Pierce, members of the Wild Bunch. The brothers - Bee, Calvin, Dal, George and Bill Dunn - ran a boarding house near Ingalls and a meat market in Pawnee. Bill Dunn was the leader, and the oldest of the brothers. By the 1890s the Dunn"
"in a train robbery outside Los Angeles, California. He and his brother Grat Dalton were captured, but later escaped. When his brothers were killed in the infamous 1892 raid on Coffeyville, Kansas, Dalton moved to Oklahoma, where he met Bill Doolin, and the two formed their own gang. They called the gang by two names, the Doolin Dalton Gang and the Oklahombres, but it became best known as the Wild Bunch. Bill Dalton became obsessed with becoming more famous than his brothers, and he and Doolin went to great efforts to see that happen. For three years they committed bank"
"Wild Bunch The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang or the Oklahombres, were a gang of American outlaws based in the Indian Territory that were active in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks and stores, holding up trains, and killing lawmen. They were also known as The Oklahoma Long Riders because of the long dusters that they wore. Of all the outlaw gangs produced by the American Old West (the gang was formed in the last decade of the 19th century), none met a more violent end than the Wild Bunch. Only two of"
"persecuted and backwashed. Collins moved to the western part of Old Socorro County, New Mexico. Collins Park in the Elk Mountains of today's Gila National Park was named in tribute to ""Shotgun"" Collins. In April 1879, John Collins was in Rynerson's Territory court in Lincoln, New Mexico for rustling cattle and stealing horses. Collins' brother-in-law, Deputy Sheriff John ""Jack"" Long, was married to Collins' sister, Delila Jane Graham. Long and Delila had three children, Buelah, Hosea ""Judge"", and John ""Riley"" Long, the latter of whom was named after John Riley, a partner in the Lincoln County War. Collins later went"