Jesse James

Crittenden had made capture of the James brothers his top priority; in his inaugural address he declared that no political motives could be allowed to keep them from justice. an event that sent the town into mourning and scrambling to buy Jesse's artifacts" "romantic appeal of the social outcast" in his mind Wilde wrote in one of his letters to home that: "Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers and always take [their] heroes from the criminal classes. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers.

Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. Jesse Woodson James (September 5 1847 – April 3 1882) was an American outlaw gang leader bank robber train robber and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.