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Positive reports. he made them the legends that they were. newspaper readers buy into the robin hood myth while in truth he is a greedy vicious killer. now clearly in the sights of the pinkertons who had been contracted to catch him. >> jesse, i must admit that was a fairly well run operation. >> not bad at all. >> they convince a neighbor to alert them to the presence on the family farm. they plan a night raid. when they throw an illumination

Jesse thinks that is probably the reason why there was an assault on james' family home. >> jesse reverts to his days as a bushwhacker and plans an ambush on a man who betrayed his family. >> you are going to teach them. >> protect an old woman and a little boy. >> after the raid on the farm pinkerton gives up on the james brothers. but jesse is now uncertain about his safety. he looks north for an easy target. >> jesse targets minnesota for a very simple reason, overconfidence. he views northern banks as no

Bushwhackers anymore. >> time is catching up with jesse and his personal war comes with a heavy price. desperate to keep up the fight jesse recruits the ford brothers. charlie and bob who idolizes jesse. >> need more whiskey. >> no problem, jesse. >> lookout.

Jesse splits from the group and is shot in the chest. frank is captured and surrend surrenders. he is forced to take an oath pledging loyalty to the union. >> i will defend the constitution of the united states and the union of the states there under. jesse is a prisoner of war under the union flag and must surrender before his wounds are treated. but he has no intention of giving up. even if the confederacy is defeated. >> for jesse james this is not an end of his conflict. this is the end of someone else's conflict, not jesse james' conflict, not frank james' conflict.

Every man's responsibility to hold on to what they got. if somebody ain't holding on to what is theirs you just take it. >> her coaching is the beginning of what criminologists call violence conditioning. >> jesse has a mother who is saying nobody is going to tell me what to do. we own the slaves and nobody is going to take that away from us. being violent is his way of life. he absorbs that attitude. >> over the next six years the james family farm transforms into a confederate stronghold. they are a force the north will have to reckon with. on april 12, 1861 the south fires on fort sumter. t...