Is Your Bank Ready for a Visit from Jesse James and the Gang?
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| May 2019
By W. Scott Evans and James W. Lane Jr., as published in West Virginia Banker Magazine, Spring 2019
West Virginia folklore has it that Jesse James and his band of outlaws robbed the Bank of Huntington on September 6, 1875. According to the Huntington Advertiser, the amount taken from the bank was between $19,000 and $20,000.