
🎙️ Tracks & Tackle Collaborative: Roundtable Sessions
The True Story Behind Jesse James' Legend
<p>In this gripping episode of Blood on the Saddle, we uncover the raw truth behind Jesse James: born in Missouri, scarred by the Civil War and Quantrill's Raiders, he and brother Frank launched America's first daylight bank robbery in 1866. Over a decade of heists, killings, and narrow escapes, they terrorized banks, trains, and stages while newspapers painted them as Robin Hood heroes fighting Yankee oppression.<br/><br/>We cover the brutal facts—no evidence of giving to the poor, 17+ confirmed kills, the disastrous Northfield raid that broke the James-Younger Gang, and Jesse’s shocking betrayal death in 1882—shot in the ba...

