The Wild West

Unlike most other confederate regiments, Bloody Bill Anderson’s regiment would "use small gang hit-and-run attacks" and raid mostly northern cities in Kansas and Missouri (Bruns 35). James rode with Anderson until he was wounded and sent home in 1865. 	After Jesse’s recovery, he and his brother Frank began to work on their family farm. As time wore on however, the James boys grew tired of this and living under the control of "Yankees". Thus, Jesse James, along with Frank, his cousins Bob, Cole, and Jim Younger, and about seven other ex-confederate soldiers, turned to crime.

He went and found Frank and the Guerrillas and talked them in to letting him join at the age of 14. He rode 2 with the Guerrillas through many battles until they surrender at the end of the Civil War. He was wounded more than once while riding with the Guerrillas. Jesse rode with many different outlaws while with the Guerrillas, such as Bloody Bill Anderson, his cousins the Younger brothers, and many other men. (O’Brien) After the Civil War, Jesse was an Outlaw.

He was born in Kearney, Missouri, but back in his time it was known as Clay County. Jesse had one brother named Franklin "Frank" James and a sister named Susan Lavenia James. He also had another brother, but he died thirty-three days after he was born. His parents were married on December 28, 1841. His father continued his schooling and graduated from Georgetown College.

Spencer Nottingham                                          11/25/99 Language Arts                                              Per 8 Sam Bass Two Column notes Location Guardians Biographical Information •     Sam Bass was born in the town of Mitchell Indiana on July 21, 1851. •     Later Bass Moved to the state of Texas where he took up the business of train robbing •     Sam's parents died when he was a youth, his mom Jane, in 1861, Dad Daniel, in 1864. •     Sam and his Twelve siblings moved in with relatives. Poor Sam was sent to his uncle David L Seeks whom deprived Sam of a proper education and made him work on the farm when he was old enough. •     While working as a teamster at the age of eighteen he drove a herd of cattle to Denton Texas and stayed working for the local Sheriff, WF "dad" Eagan.

Coby Gunning Block 1 June 2, 2014 Jesse James When you think of the Wild West who is the first person that comes to your mind? When you think of daring bank and train robberies in the Wild West, now who comes to your mind? Jesse James was an Ex Confederate who could not get over the loss of the Civil War, so he expressed his pain and anger in other ways. He robbed Union banks, stagecoaches, and even a few trains. Fueled by this anger, Jesse James became a giant thorn in America’s side.

The worst criminal act the ‘Dirty Dozen’ participated in consisted of stealing coal from the nearby railroad . As Dillinger grew older, so did the intensity of his crimes. In his teenage years Dillinger stole a car to impress a girl, and when caught he fled to the navy. According to John he was “discharged” from the navy, but records say he escaped. Dillinger committed his first major criminal act in September of 1924 with Ed Singleton.

His mother Kathleen Maddox, a teenage prostitute, his father was a man remembered as “Colonel Scott.” In order to give her bastard son a name she married William Manson. He quickly abandoned the both of them. In 1939 Kathleen Maddox was arrested for robbery and Charles was sent to live with his aunt and grandmother. Charles remembered his aunt as a harsh disciplinarian and favored is uncle because he gave him money for the movies and took him on frequent fishing trips. Only when his uncle became ill did his unfit mother come and reclaim her unwanted son and moved to Indianapolis.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp Wyatt Earp was born on March 19, 1848. He is the son of Nicholas Earp, a lawyer/farmer and Virginia Earp and was born at 406 South Third Street, Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt was given the name of his father's Army captain. When Wyatt was quiet young, his two older brother, James and Virgil, went off to fight in the Civil War for the Union. A story is told in which Wyatt tried to run away and join the Army, but his father caught him in a corn field and took him back to the house.

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaw settlement on the western frontier of South Carolina. He was born into a poor family. Jackson was the third child of Scotch-Irish parents. His father, who was also named Andrew, died in a logging accident just a few days before the birth of his third son and future president. After her husband’s death, Jackson’s mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, raised her three sons at the home of one of her sisters.

After leaving school he was not able to enroll into college reason being his family couldn't manage the cost of it, rather he had various employments, first as a timekeeper for a railroad development organization, then as a representative in two Kansas City banks. Five years after he came back to Grandview to help his father with the family farm. He kept working as a rancher for more than ten years. From 1905 to 1911, Truman served in the Missouri National Guard. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he helped create the second Regiment of Missouri Field Artillery, which was quickly called into Federal government as the 129th Field Artillery and sent to France.