27 Facts About Jesse James

1. Jesse James credits part of the appeal of his series to serving as a welcome antidote to other reality–TV fare.

2. Jesse James still loved to tinker, and found his calling in customizing motorcycles.

3. Jesse James owns his own motorcycle–customizing shop in Long Beach, California, and initially took the television job merely as a fluke.

4. Jesse James hosts the cult–favorite Discovery Channel series Monster Garage, a reality show in which he and his team transform ordinary cars for shockingly inappropriate new uses.

5. At this time Jesse James was living with his family in St Joseph, Mo.

6. Jesse James formed an alliance with the editor and founder of The Kansas City Star, who published letters from James that proclaimed his innocence.

7. Jesse James was shot in the chest while attempting to surrender to Union soldiers near Lexington, Missouri.

8. Jesse James liked to at least maintain the pretense of being harassed by former Unionists in order to obtain food, shelter and information from ex-Confederates while he was on the dodge.

9. Jesse James was identified as taking part in the Centralia Massacre that left 22 unarmed Union soldiers dead or injured.

10. Jesse James was not some finger-pointing, overtly careful leader of the gang.

11. Jesse James was the 3th most notorious outlaw in the west.

12. Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri.

13. In 2018, Jesse James received just seven starts while splitting time with McDonald, who signed with the Steelers as a free agent in the summer of 2017.

14. In 2015, Jesse James, playing behind the greatest tight end in Steelers' history in Heath Miller, caught just eight passes for 56 yards but did score a critical touchdown in Pittsburgh's midseason victory over Oakland.

15. Jesse James was suspicious that the Fords had not told him about it.

16. Jesse James began to work with former Unionists who lived near the James family farm.

17. Jesse James was tended to by his first cousin, Zerelda "Zee" Mimms, named after Jesse's mother.

18. Jesse James recovered from his chest wound at his uncle's boardinghouse in Harlem, Missouri.

19. At the age of 17, Jesse James suffered the second of two life-threatening chest wounds when he was shot while trying to surrender after they ran into a Union cavalry patrol near Lexington, Missouri.

20. Jesse James held six slaves and more than 100 acres of farmland.

21. Jesse James had two full siblings: his elder brother, Alexander Franklin "Frank" James, and a younger sister, Susan Lavenia James.

22. Jesse James has often been used as a fictional character in many Western novels, including some published while he was alive.

23. Instead of confronting them, Jesse James walked across the living room and laid his revolvers on a sofa.

24. Jesse James had often stayed with their sister Martha Bolton and, according to rumor, he was "smitten" with her.

25. Jesse James was a bank and train robber in the American Old West, best known as the leading member of the James-Younger gang of outlaws.

26. In many of the films, Jesse James is portrayed as a Robin Hood-like character.

27. In the 1950s, Jesse James was pictured as a psychologically troubled individual rather than a social rebel.