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Gallatin paid tribute to perhaps its most historic moment in 1992 when the Gallatin Theater League resurrected apsects of the 1883 Trial of Frank James. The re-enactment, financed in part through the Missouri Arts Council, was the first ever performed here -- over 100 years since the most famous trial of the Wild West unfolded in an opera house on the west side of the Gallatin business square.
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Note: -- reprinted from the Gallatin North Missourian
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Daviess County families share James Gang lore, often passed down by word of mouth. No attempt at verifying facts are made here; it is of interest how the legend keeps growing.
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In October, 1942, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat published an eye-witness account of the 1869 robbery of the Daviess County Savings Association by Frank and Jesse James. Edward Clingan, 89, of Gallatin was identified as the only living witness to the robbery, which at the time of publication occurred 73 years prior. This newspaper account claimed that Mr. Clingan recounted the adventure "as clearly and as accurately as though it had happened yesterday."
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Note: -- reprinted from the Saturday, Oct. 17, 1942 edition of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, written by Ed Johnson expressly for the Globe-Democrat.
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Authentic, historical legal papers -- the only civil lawsuit ever filed against Frank & Jesse James -- rediscovered on Aug. 17, 2007, by James Meuhlberger, an attorney from Kansas City while researching lawfirm originating partner Henry Clay McDougal.
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Note: -- Written by Darryl Wilkinson, Editor; Published in the August 22, 2007 edition of the Gallatin North Missourian
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The 1869 bank robbery at Gallatin, the 1881 train robbery at Winston, and the 1883 trial of Frank James in Gallatin aren't the only significant incidents involving the James Gang in Daviess County, MO. In 1871 a posse chased the outlaws following a bank robbery at Corydon, Iowa, to exchange gunfire at the Civil Bend school.
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Note: Written by David Stark, Gallatin, for the Gallatin North Missourian published on April 4, 1993
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Records show family ties from outlaws Johnny Ringo, James Dalton, the Youngers, and Frank and Jesse James were to families residing here in Daviess County, MO.
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Note: Written by David Stark, Gallatin, printed in the Feb. 22, 1995 edition of the Gallatin North Missourian.
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In a 1965 book about Detective Allen Pinkerton written by Ornmont, there is an account of the arrest of gang chief John Reno at Seymour, IN, for the Gallatin, MO, burglary of Nov. 17, 1867. The Reno gang was considered the "country's first great outlaw band." There were as many as 100 members, and headquarters was at Reno's Hotel in Seymour.
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Note: Written by David Stark, printed in the Gallatin North Missourian on March 24, 1993.
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Some of the Old West's most famous desperados have Gallatin in their past, most notably Frank and Jesse James and the lesser known Reno brothers. Now add another name to the list: Johnny Ringo.
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Note: Written by Editor Darryl Wilkinson, Gallatin North Missourian, July 22, 1992
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A site a few hundred feet north of Highway 6 at Gallatin, and just west of Route MM, marks the spot where two murderers died in 1886, in what were to be among the last public hangings in Missouri. Joe Jump and John Smith were found guilty of the murder of William C. Gladson, an Iowa man, who was in the Gallatin area as a teamster for the Rock Island Railroad on a track-laying project.
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Jesse James died in the prime of life in a way that could only multiply and strengthen the already internationally-known legend of the James Gang. But what of his soft-spoken brother, the student of Shakespeare? What marked the end of his life in crime? Frank James was tried for robbery and murder in Gallatin in 1883.
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Note: Written by Darryl Wilkinson, 1989
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