Jesse James : The Greatest Rebel And Outlaw

Zerelda Cole was sixteen when she decided to marry a baptist minister named Robert James(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). He contributed to founding the William Jewell College in Liberty. The two soon moved to Clay County, Missouri from Kentucky to run a small farm(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847(“Jesse James” 2). His older brother Alexander Franklin James was born on January 10, 1843. Jesse also had a sister named Susan born on November 25, 1849 and another half sister named Fannie Quantrill Samuel born on October 18, 1863(“Jesse James (1847 - 1882)” 1). The family had a 100 acre farm where they raised sheep and hemp(Carlynn Trout 3). Robert James left the family to join the Gold Rush but unfortunately died at the age of 26. Jesse was 3 at the time and never saw his father again(“Jesse James” 1). Zerelda remarried but quickly divorced Benjamin

The Wild West lasted throughout the 1800’s. It is what most people think about when they think of American. Many famous people came out of the Wild West. Most of them were outlaws.

Jesse decided that it was time to settle down so he moved back home and married his first cousin, Zerelda. This union brought them two children, Jesse and Mary James. Zerelda wanted Jesse to pursue a more normal life, but with a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse and his family had to move to St. Louis where they lived in a house for $14 a month and Jesse went by the name Tom Howard.

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     Billy the Kid is one of the most famous outlaws in American history. He has been a widely told figure in American history as well as folklore. The have made movies from his history and have also wrote many books on him. Most of Billy the Kids life remains a heated controversy throughout America.

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Fredrick Douglass (1818-1945), both a fugitive slave and a free man, was one of the most courageous and influential leaders of the abolitionist movement. His narrative, published in 1845, illustrates his childhood and early manhood experiences as a salve, as well as his escape to the North and find of freedom. Within his narrative entitled “The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass,” Douglass argues that in order to achieve physical freedom, a slave must seek knowledge and an education.

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Jesse James was born September 5th, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri. He grew up on a Hemp farm and his parents owned a few slaves. This upbringing led to him serving in the confederate army alongside his brother Frank during the Civil war, as a Quantrill, or someone who raided towns for cash. Frank was old enough to serve previous terms, which also inspired Jesse to join a part of the army. When his work as a Quantrill was done, he spiraled into a criminal state, desperate not to be a farmer.

Jesse James was born in September 5 of 1847 and raised in Kearny Missouri; he was the product of Robert James and Zerelda James. His father, Robert was a Baptist preacher and slave holder who died in California by contracting cholera. His mother Zerelda had remarried after Roberts’s death three times and fully supported and defended Jesse with his crimes. He had seven siblings one who was his partner in crime, his older brother Frank James. Jesse was raised pro-confederate and pro-southern which meant that he was not against slavery. Jesse James had followed in Frank’s footsteps and became a marauding bushwhacker (a confederate guerilla fighter) and joined the confederate guerilla led by “Bloody Bill”. Later on Jesse had joined Frank along with other confederate guerillas to rob stagecoaches and do raids.

I am from the South and we won the First Battle of Bull Run. The North thought it would be an easy war and would be able to run through us. We sure taught them that we would not go down without a fight. General Stonewall Jackson held bravely on the front line when General Barnard Bee told his men to take heart and look at Jackson standing like a Stonewall to earn Jackson his nickname Stonewall Jackson. The battle ended with 3,000 Union casualties, compared with 1,750 for the Confederates. Also, it made Lincoln remove McDowell from command and replace him with George B. McClellan. On the our side, accusations flew between Johnston, Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis over who was to blame for the failure to pursue and crush the enemy after

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Billy the Kid and Jesse James are famous for being robbers, murders and just a plain nuisance. Jesse James and Billy the Kid had only met once or twice in their life, but how much were they alike? In the early years of Jesse’s life, he was brought up by a very strong willed and independent woman named Zerelda Elizabeth Cole James. Zerelda married Robert James on December 28, 1841.

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