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JESSE JAMES
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reunited with former guerillas turned outlaws.
After the sensational Clay County robbery, they
freed former Quantrill members from jail in Independence,
Missouri.
They went on a series of robberies shooting
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law men and innocent bystanders alike. As
older members of the original Raiders were
killed off, the group became known as the
James-Younger Gang.
They continued to rob banks in Missouri,
Iowa, and Kentucky; and in one sensational
hold-up took on the Second Annual Kansas
City Exposition. They attacked the ticket
booth while the fair was attended by thousands.
In 1873 they robbed their first train, in
Adair, Iowa, killing an engineer in the process.
Book cover: An Authentic Exposition of the Knights of the Golden Circle, A History of Secession
from 1834 to 1861
While the gang crisscrossed the Midwest
they were written up by Kansas City Times editor
The as Crown heroes. ofJohn
Newman Edwards wrote
“The St. Stephen Chivalry of Crime” which described them
as not only defending the South, but fighting
“with the halo of medieval chivalry.” This reference
to the Knights Templar was just part of
the creation of a myth-history glamorizing the
rebels. They themselves kept little in writing.
And their actions were hardly chivalrous, as
in certain cases they assassinated the bank managers
they robbed. It was, however, political.
The railroads were targeted because their policies
hurt small farmers. The three companies
that generally siphoned funds from local banks
to be sent to New York—American Express,
Adams Express, and Wells Fargo—were also targeted.
In one Wells Fargo robbery they took
$18,000 in currency. Adams Express hired the
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who
wanted nothing less than to kill them all, especially
after some of their own agents were killed.
The gang managed to operate until August
of 1876 when a bank robbery in Northfield,
Minnesota, saw members killed, the Younger
brothers captured, and the James boys on the
run.
The Jameses avoided capture for a time.
Then in 1882 Jesse was shot in the back of the
head for the reward money... or was he? The alternate
theory is that someone who shared his
build was killed and that Jesse became a field
commander of the KGC. His mission was to
protect the KGC’s stash of nearly $10 million,
an amount that would be $100 million today.
That same year Albert Pike went on an odyssey
around the South. The stashes were protected,
but at the same time, codes and symbols were
employed which would direct other initiates to
just where these caches were and how to get to
them. Guardian families were appointed to
guard the sites from treasure hunters.
The Man Who Broke the Code
In recent years, retiring twenty-year Navy
veteran Bob Brewer, returning to his home in
west central Arkansas, stumbled on a family secret.
His grandfather was one of the guardians
who had once protected a handful of treasure
stashes. Before he had signed up for the Navy,
Brewer had been aware that his grandfather kept
a log of his efforts to protect a treasure. He recorded
these excursions with enigmatic remarks
like “found cow in cave.” As Brewer later explained
to author Warren Gettler, he came to
understand this to mean a “cowan,” a Masonic
term for outsider. He also found his grandfather
was rumored to have killed “a man or
two.” From an uncle he learned that one particular
mountain held more money than a man
could spend in a lifetime, but it belonged to
someone else and nobody could touch it.
Brewer felt as though he himself was being initiated
into a secret known and shared by his
grandfather and uncle, but every time he had
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