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Title	Jesse James
Alternative Title	James, Jesse
Genre	Legend -- People -- Famous
Description	Steven Nixon's transcribed interview of Jack Nixon about Jesse James. According to Nixon, there are still bullet holes in a house that Jesse James stayed in. The bullet holes are the result of a gun fight between Jesse and Frank James and a posse from a town they had just robbed.
Informant	Nixon, Jack
Collector	Nixon, Steven
Date of Original	1969-03-16
Contextual Information	Jesse James was an infamous American outlaw. He and his brother, Frank James, were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. After the war they became outlaws. Some accounts portray James as a "Robin Hood" type outlaw, but there is no proof of this.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Pike County -- Bowman -- 1969
Subject	Legends People Criminals
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-31
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-JesseJames001

Jesse James

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