Howard when, on April 3, 1882, “the dirty little coward” Robert Ford shot him in the back as James, just before setting off to rob another bank, paused to straighten a picture hanging on a wall. James had been living under the pseudonym of Mr. It had also achieved a modest fame as the eastern starting point for the Pony Express, and considerable notoriety as the last hometown of the outlaw Jesse James. As the westernmost railway destination in the United States until after the Civil War, it had served as the prosperous gateway for settlers, miners, and others seeking their fortune on the frontier. Joseph, like Heady and Hall, had known better days. Joseph, Missouri.Īn old frontier town on a crook of the Missouri River, fifty miles north of Kansas City, St. They had spent the night at Heady’s home in St.
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