Slave-Owning Family Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers who owned six slaves. When the Civil War came, young Jesse watched ...

A California man found an image of what an expert is convinced is a real photo of the notorious bank robber and gang leader.

Even though he died more than 140 years ago, American outlaw Jesse James has ... a never-before-seen photo of James that for decades lay forgotten tucked inside a family heirloom.

A California man says he has discovered a piece of American history: a never-before-seen photo of the infamous outlaw Jesse James. Dale Ball, 55, says the photo was tucked inside an old family ...

but she soon recovered her composure and resumed the campaign to present the James family as innocent victims of Federal troops and Radical Republicans. Jesse spent the late 1870s living in ...