On June 3, 1871, four members of the James-Younger Gang rode into Corydon, Iowa. The four consisted of Jesse and Frank James, Cole Younger and Clell Miller. They rode on their horses up to the Ocobock ...

Jesse James is born in Clay County ... Jesse and Frank rob a bank in Corydon, Iowa, with two other ex-bushwhackers, boasting of their deed to an assembled crowd. The bank hires the Pinkerton ...

1871 Wild West outlaw Jesse James brazenly robs a bank in Corydon, Iowa, of $45 000. 1886 The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

and a key part of that history belongs to Iowa. On July 21, 1873, the James-Younger game — headed by the notorious outlaw Jesse James — conducted one of the first robberies of a moving train ...

Jesse James is born in Clay County ... Jesse and Frank rob a bank in Corydon, Iowa, with two other ex-bushwhackers, boasting of their deed to an assembled crowd. The bank hires the Pinkerton ...