On the afternoon of September 7, 1876, Jesse and Frank James, along with Cole, Jim and Robert Younger and three other associates, tried to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.

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Together with Edwards's admiring editorials, the letters helped James become a symbol of Confederate defiance of federal Reconstruction policy. The five bandits outside fired into the air to clear the streets, driving the townspeople to take cover and fire back from protected positions.

Public opinion was divided between those against the Fords for murdering Jesse and those of the opinion that it had been time for the outlaw to be stopped. Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Volume 2, edited by: James Patrick Byrne, Philip Coleman, Jason Francis King, pp.

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In November 2013, Jesse James Firearms Unlimited unveiled its first two firearms, a 1911 pistol and an AR-15 rifle. Some filmmakers portrayed the former outlaw as a revenger, replacing "social with exclusively personal motives. He and his brother Frank James joined pro- Confederate guerrillas known as " bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War.Jesse James remains a controversial symbol, one who can always be reinterpreted in various ways according to cultural tensions and needs. The atmosphere was volatile, with widespread clashes between individuals and between armed gangs of veterans from both sides of the war. This was the beginning of an alliance between James and John Newman Edwards, editor and founder of the Kansas City Times. Frank James eluded capture and was believed to have joined the guerrilla organization led by William C. James later established Payupsucker Productions, under which he produced shows like History of the Chopper, Iraq Confidential with Jesse James and Green Scream, in which James plans to break the land speed record with an eco-friendly hydrogen car.

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The James brothers were most active as members of their own gang from about 1866 until 1876, when as a result of their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, several members of the gang were captured or killed. The implication that the chief executive of Missouri conspired to kill a private citizen startled the public and added to James's notoriety. They had a reputation of cruel and brutal treatment of Union soldiers, and Jesse was identified as one of the members who took part in the Centralia Massacre that left 22 unarmed Union soldiers dead or injured.

In 1868, Frank and Jesse James allegedly joined Cole Younger in robbing a bank in Russellville, Kentucky.

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The body buried in Kearney, Missouri, marked "Jesse James" was exhumed in 1995 and subjected to mitochondrial DNA typing. During the attempted robbery, three members of the gang went inside and demanded the cashier open the safe, but he refused.

Bob Ford, a new recruit into the James gang, had pulled the trigger, having conspired with his older brother Charley, already a member of the gang.