Places to visit:
Winston, Missouri
Event: Train Robbery July 15, 1881
Sites: Rock Island Train Depost. Stone Railroad arch where getaway horses
were hidden
Present Event: Jesse James Days, Mid July
Contact: Winston Historical Society, Box 177 Winston, Mo. 64689
Gallatin, Mo.
Event: Savings Assoc. robbery, Dec 7, 1869
Sites: Tombstone of murdered John Sheets in Lyle Cemetery
1883 Trial of Frank James (in which he was aquited)
1889 Squirrel Cage Jail (on the National Registry)
Contact:
Carthage, Mo.
Site: Belle Star Museum at the Red Oak Historical Village
Features Frank James Portrait and stories of Cole Younger and Belle Star
Contact:
Notorious outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed in this house on April 3,1882 by Bob Ford, a member of the James gang, to collect a $10,000 reward offered by Governor Tom Crittenden.
Jesse died at the age of 34 after living a lawless career for 16 years. At the time of his death he was living with his wife and two children under the assumed name of Tom Howard. Jesse was shot from behind while he stood on a chair to straighten a picture in his own home. After the shooting, Jesse's wife and children and his mother, Mrs. Zerelda Samuel, spent the next two nights at Patee House, which was then called the World's Hotel.
Today the James Home is a museum dealing with the life and death of Jesse James. It is furnished as it looked when the James family lived there, and features many unique drawings of the outlaw.
The Jesse James Museum is operated by the Pony Express Historical Association with all proceeds from admission charges going to help maintain both the James Home and Patee House Museum.
The James Home was originally located about two blocks north from its present location at 1318 Lafayette Street, on a high hill overlooking Patee House, In 1939 it was moved to the Belt Highway in St. Joseph as a tourist attraction.
Mr and Mrs. Robert Keatley purchased the James Home in 1977 and donated it to the Pony Express Historical Association. The house was moved back to its original neighborhood and today it is located on the grounds of Patee House Museum. Located 5 minutes from 1-29. Take U.S. 36 west to the 10th Street Exit, then 6 blocks north and 2 blocks east.
Handicapped Accessible
Hours:
June-August
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily
1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday
September-May
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily
1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday
Open year-round, weather permitting.
Admission: Adults $1.00--Students $.50
Pony Express Historical Association 12th & Penn Streets, St. Joseph, Mo. 64503
(816) 232-8206
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For historical and geneological information, please contact Donna Rose and Wilma Hillman.