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Gunfighters: Frank and Jesse James

Valentines Day,1866. 2 o’clock pm, Liberty Missouri. 12 men swathed in long soldier’s overcoats, with six-shooters strapped ominously around their waists arrived in town. Two men swung off their horses and strode into the bank, the Clay County Savings Association. History was about to be made. The cashier, Greenup Bird, and his son, William (the […]