Jesse James Quotes

• Surrender had played out for good with me.

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• My pistols, however, I always kept by me.

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• I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

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• I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

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• This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

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• No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

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• From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.

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• Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

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• Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

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Jesse James (9)

Birth:	5th September, 1847
Death:	3rd April, 1882
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Criminal

About

Jesse Woodson James was born in Near Kearney, Missouri, USA. He was an American criminal, bank and train robber, guerrilla, gang leader, and murderer. Hailing from the "Little Dixie" area of western Missouri, James was the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas or bushwhackers during the Civil War. On April 3, 1882, James was killed by Robert Ford, a young member of his gang who hoped to collect a reward on James' head. Already a celebrity in life, James became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

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