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The James-Younger Gang and their Circle of FriendsWild West | 18 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post After Jesse James was killed, the Hudspeths continued to support Frank James. Frank’s 1883 murder trial in Gallatin, Mo., lasted 16 days, and he was acquitted after the jury deliberated for 3 1/2 hours. Because Dick Liddil had implicated Frank in the March 11, 1881, holdup of a paymaster in Muscle Shoals, Ala., Frank also stood trial in Huntsville, Ala. That trial lasted 10 days in April 1884, and again Frank was declared not guilty. Once back in Missouri, he faced charges for the July 7, 1876, train robbery at Otterville, because a captured gang member, Hobbs Kerry, had fingered him long ago. However, just two days before the trial was scheduled to begin in Kansas City in February 1885, the case was dropped because evidence was missing and there were no living witnesses available. Frank James was now clear of all charges in Missouri, and newly elected Governor John Sappington Marmaduke, a onetime Confederate general, had no intention of turning the former guerrilla over to Minnesota authorities to stand trial for the Northfield robbery. Marmaduke, according to newspaperman Edwards, had merely advised Frank to go to work on a farm and ‘to keep out of the newspapers. Keep away from fairs and fast horses, and keep strictly out of sight for a year.’ Over the next 30 years, Frank James would continue to be welcome whenever he made a visit to one of the Hudspeth homes in Lake City. On January 8, 1897, the former outlaw was in St. Louis when he wrote a letter to Mrs. Malinda Paralee Hudspeth Wood, the youngest daughter of Major William Hudspeth: Subscribe Today
George Hudspeth died six years after the letter was written. Babe Hudspeth died in 1907. Malinda Paralee, to whom Frank wrote the 1897 letter, died in 1913, two years before Lamartine Hudspeth and Frank James himself died. Ben Hudspeth Murrow lived until 1916, as did Cole Younger. During their criminal careers and afterward, the James and Younger brothers had an inner circle of good friends, and few were better than the Hudspeths, faithful to the end. This article was written by William Preston Mangum II and originally appeared in the August 2003 issue of Wild West magazine. For more great articles be sure to subscribe to Wild West magazine today! Pages: 1 2 3 4 Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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18 Comments to “The James-Younger Gang and their Circle of Friends”
From February 13, 1866, through the September 7, 1876, Northfield raid in Minnesota, the James-Younger Gang reportedly robbed 12 banks, five trains, five stagecoaches and the gate cash box of the ticket booth at the Kansas City Exposition.
dorkey
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By dorkey on Jul 23, 2008 at 1:15 am
Well I think essential to the West’s most famous outlaw brothers’ success was the support of a circle of trusted friends.
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rahulk
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By rahulk on Jul 27, 2008 at 8:53 am
Well I think this discussion is essential to the West’s most famous outlaw brothers’ success was the support of a circle of trusted friends.
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rahulk
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By rahulk on Jul 27, 2008 at 8:56 am
Well this is really a amazing discussion I think essential to the West’s most famous outlaw brothers’ success was the support of a circle of trusted friends
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animesh
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By animesh on Jul 27, 2008 at 11:10 am
I’m amazed that Jesse James seems so revered by some. He was a person who’s life was based on criminal activity who also married his cousin. Quite a hero. Looks like the “circle of friends” didn’t quite remain unbroken with Robert Ford. Good riddance to all of them.
By Mike on Jul 27, 2008 at 2:45 pm
It is a nice site. Jesse James life was based on criminal activities. They were good horsemen pay full attention to their horses. I want to know more about this site. please help me out of it.
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rakhi5828
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By rakhi5828 on Jul 28, 2008 at 12:56 am
I would like any information about jesse james being locked up in any jail in Missouri that he escaped from. I am looking for info about my great-great-great grandfather. He supposedly was a jailer named Anderson McDaniel and he broke Jesse out of jail. He went on the lam and I cant find any info on him. Also, more info on Tom and “Bud” McDaniel. Possible relatives. Thanks.
By crazdazy on Aug 10, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Pitt won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, yet even so, I think this is Casey Affleck’s movie in the end. Robert Ford is the worm who turns. “People take me for a nincompoop,” he admits early on, and they do.
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Abdulla
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By abdulla on Aug 16, 2008 at 2:54 am
Pitt won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, yet even so, I think this is Casey Affleck’s movie in the end. Robert Ford is the worm who turns. “People take me for a nincompoop,” he admits early on, and they do.
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Abdulla
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By abdulla on Aug 16, 2008 at 2:55 am
Does anyone know if the James-Younger Gang or their associates had a farm/hideout in Campbell County, Dakota Territory?
By Allan Burke on Aug 20, 2008 at 1:26 am
Looks like my family had a lot to do with the James/Younger Gang. No wonder we are a bunch of Jailbirds!!!!
By Robert Hudspeth on Oct 19, 2008 at 11:27 pm
can any one tell me about the younger gang i found out that i am related to some one in the young gang.
By zac younger on Jan 23, 2009 at 8:53 am
They were murdering thieves, but man oh man their lives were far from ordinary. Otherwise, folks like us would not be interested in hearing about how they lived and how they died.
The best movie ever made about these guys starred the Quaid brothers, the Carradine brothers and the Keach brothers. Brothers portraying brothers. The concept worked well for the movie.
By MichWolverine on Feb 3, 2009 at 11:25 pm
i am a direct decendant of the pitts side-my fathers name is james richard franklin pitts retired from west point he is now residing in alameda, ca. i grew up living in texas amd missouri-where my uncle had a farm-if i remember correctly his name was “charlie”
By carolynpittsschiveley on Mar 21, 2009 at 11:05 am
Did any of the Mimms that Jesse James is related too settle in Northern Georgia and who were they? I am kin to some Mimms in Georgia and I want to know if there is a connection.
By Will B on Aug 2, 2009 at 2:08 am
The Jesse James Gang was in the Indian Territory in what is now Bryan Co., OK. A story in the local newspaper there reports that they rode in one time and invited themselves to stay at a local preacher’s house for dinner. The preacher was holding gold boulion for the local Choctaw Chief as he had heard that they were coming in to rob him. Unknown to Jesse, the boulion was buried in the chicken yard. One of the gang members asked the preacher if he had an money and he replied that he was but a poorly preacher and had no money. With that his young son said but “what about the money the money they were given”. The gang member grabbed up the boy by his shirt to intimidate him into telling more when Jesse interceded and said, “We don’t take pennies from preachers”. With that Jesse made the gang member leave the dinner table and go outside apologizing to the preacher. Jesse also had a circle of friends there in the Choctaw Nation. There’s also rumors that local folks took care of a gang member who had been shot nursing him back to health.
By C. Cannon on Aug 21, 2009 at 9:04 am
I have some photos I need identified.
By Shannon on Sep 18, 2009 at 7:31 pm
do you all know anything about the slave cave in park city kentucy. it was said that jesse james hide out there several times when he was in ky. please email me some info about this need as much as you can find.
By jason holtzclaw on Nov 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm