Pacific train robbery at Rocky Cut, July 7, 1876, where they
held the train for an hour and a quarter and secured about fifteen
thousand dollars in all; the robbery of the Chicago & Alton train near
Glendale, Missouri, October 7, 1879, in which the James boys' gang
secured between thirty-five and fifty thousand dollars in currency; the
robbery of the Rock Island train near Winston, Missouri, July 15, 1881,
by the James boys' gang, in which conductor Westfall was killed,
messenger Murray badly beaten, and a passenger named MacMillan killed,
little booty being obtained; the Blue Cut robbery of the Alton train,
September 7, 1881, in which the James boys and eight others searched
every passenger and took away a two-bushel sack full of cash, watches,
and jewelry, beating the express messenger badly because they got so
little from the safe. This last robbery caused the resolution of
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, to take the bandits dead or alive, a
reward of thirty thousand dollars being arranged by different railways
and express companies, a price of ten thousand dollars each being put
on the heads of Frank and Jesse James.

Outside of this long list of the bandit gang's deeds of outlawry, they
were continually in smaller undertakings of a similar nature. Once they
took away ten thousand dollars in cash at the box office of the Kansas
City Fair, this happening September 26, 1872, in a crowded city, with
all the modern machinery of the law to guard its citizens. Many acts at
widely separated parts of the country were accredited to the Younger or
the James boys, and although they cannot have been guilty of all of
them, and, although many of the adventures accredited to them in Texas,
Mexico, California, the Indian Nations, etc., bear earmarks of
apocryphal origin, there is no doubt that for twenty years after the
close of the civil war they made a living in this way, their gang being
made up of perhaps a score of different men in all, and usually
consisting of about six to ten men, according to the size of the
undertaking on hand.

Meantime, all these years, the list of homicides for each of them was
growing. Jesse James killed three men out of six who attacked his house
one night, and not long after Frank and he are alleged to have killed
six men in a gambling fight in California. John and Jim Younger killed
the Pinkerton detectives Lull and Daniels, John being himself killed at
that time by Daniels. A little later, Fran