His
St. Joseph neighbors knew the man living at 1318 Lafayette Street as Tom Howard. How would they know that the dark-haired gentleman, with a full beard, was really the
lighter-haired outlaw Jesse James? How would they know his wife was actually
Zee James, not Mary Howard?
But Bob Ford knew. So did his brother Charlie. And they knew something else which the man with an alias did not.
The governor of Missouri had a pending deal with Bob Ford. If he killed Jesse James, Bob would no longer have to face a murder charge for the death of someone else. An enticing proposition, in 1882, but how would Ford kill a man who seemed invincible?
And...how did Jesse James become
an outlaw in the first place?
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