The story of the robbery was revived in 1953 after a fire swept through the South Amana store, doing $25,000 in damage.

Jesse James is dead. Dead as a doornail, as Charles Dickens put it about Scrooge’s business partner, Marley (read “A Christmas Carol” sometime). Dickens elaborated a bit saying that he doesn’t know ...

The bandits lay in waiting near Rock Island, Iowa, at the top of a hill around the end of a sharp curve. The gang had pried loose a rail and tied a rope to it. When the train’s engineer saw the rope, ...

With the exception of Billy the Kid and possibly Wyatt Earp, no other figure from the Old West has been romanticized more ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jesse James, America’s most famous outlaw, escaped justice for decades largely because few people knew what he looked like. Born in Missouri in 1847, James became a ...

Patrick Meguiar holds an ambrotype photograph he owns that is purported to show an image of the famed outlaw Jesse James. (JACK DOBBS / Daily News) FRANKLIN — The small photograph encased in a wooden ...

It's an iconic image of the Old West: masked desperados on horseback chasing down a speeding train to rob its passengers and cargo. In fact there really were hundreds of train robberies in the late ...