Taken when Jesse James was just 16 years old, while riding with Confederate bushwhackers in Missouri during the Civil War. He's visibly armed, a pistol tucked into his waistband, already a hardened guerrilla fighter under William "Bloody Bill" Anderson's command.
A decade later, a newspaper editor named John Newman Edwards would rebrand this violent radical as a noble "Robin Hood" outlaw, Lost Cause propaganda that fooled America for 140 years.
by Nervous_Tip2096
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I made a full documentary on how the Jesse James myth was deliberately manufactured, the editor behind it, the political motive, and why the lie lasted so long. Link here: [https://youtu.be/mEnZV__BSH0](https://youtu.be/mEnZV__BSH0)
REAL HISTORICAL RECORDS & SOURCES
• Jesse James — Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James)
• Samuel P. Cox — Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Cox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Cox)
• The Centralia Massacre [https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/centralia-massacre](https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/centralia-massacre)
• The Lost Cause — Smarthistory [https://smarthistory.org/the-lost-cause-and-confederate-memory/](https://smarthistory.org/the-lost-cause-and-confederate-memory/)
• Jesse James & The Chivalry of Crime [https://masscommons.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/jesse-james-the-chivalry-of-crime-the-uses-of-propaganda/](https://masscommons.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/jesse-james-the-chivalry-of-crime-the-uses-of-propaganda/)
Fuck this dude. Come celebrate his demise with us in Northfield every weekend after Labor Day 🙂
See also Bonnie & Clyde, the mafia, drug dealers, etc.