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Outlaws of the West #58
The feature story presents the true history of Jesse James, detailing how shortly after the James boys returned to Missouri, they and the Shepard boys, Jim White, and John Jarrett robbed the Southern Bank of Kentucky, escaping with $14,000 while overlooking $50,000 more in the vault. When the gang attempts to rob a gold shipment by stopping a train, they target the wrong locomotive and are forced to flee; the actual gold train arrives twelve hours later, and the gang subsequently robs the passenger cars instead. Frank and Jesse James are eventually identified, and the gang is hunted across multiple states, with a $5,000 reward posted for Jesse James and his gang.