Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of state-funded secret police. But Thomas Crittenden knew that to catch a ...

Testing established a 99.7 percent certainty that the body buried in Kearney was, indeed, the famous outlaw. Ron Pastore, who opened the Jesse James Museum in Wichita, has had a Kansas man exhumed ...

Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of state-funded secret police. But Thomas Crittenden knew that to catch a ...

Rosenwald James Carlos Blake, whose savage ... reimagined the life of the Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin.Credit...Grove Press Mr. Blake published his debut novel, “The Pistoleer,” in 1995.