THE JAMES BROTHERS IN MISSOURI
Of 26 robberies and killings in which Jesse is thought to have taken part over 15 years, author Adam Woog lists the following as having occurred in Missouri.
PRE-JAMES GANG
September 20, 1864
Jesse is among group of perhaps 80 men lead by Confederate sympathizer "Bloody Bill" Anderson who robs and burns stores and kills more than 20 unarmed Union soldiers in Centralia, Missouri.
February 13, 1866
The James boys were thought to be among the 11 men on horseback who committed the first peacetime daylight bank robbery in America in Liberty, Missouri at the Clay County Savings Bank.
THE JAMES GANG
October 1866
The gang is thought to have robbed the Alexander Mitchell and Company bank in Lexington, Missouri
March 2, 1867
The Judge John McCain Banking House in Savannah, Missouri is robbed by the James-Younger gang.
May 22, 1867
The Hughes and Wasson Bank in Richmond, Missouri is robbed by a gang, of which Jesse was thought to be the leader.
December 7, 1869
The James-Younger gang robs the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. Jesse kills the teller he mistakenly identifies as the man who had killed his former leader, "Bloody Bill" Anderson.
September 26, 1872
While heading home to Kearney from a string of bank robberies in Kentucky and Iowa, the James gang robs the ticket booth of a large fair outside Kansas City.
May 27, 1873
The James-Younger gang holds up the Ste. Genevieve Savings Association in St. Genevieve.
The gang robs the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad in Gad’s Hill, Missouri.
July 7, 1876
The Missouri Pacific Railroad in Rocky Cut, Missouri is held up.
October 8, 1879
The gang robs the Chicago and Alton Railroad in Glendale, Missouri.
July 15, 1881
One of the last robberies committed by the James Gang takes place in Winston, Missouri when a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad departs the station. Two men on board are killed by the gang.
September 7, 1881
The last train robbery by the James gang is of the Chicago and Alton train at Blue Cut, Missouri.