Killer attraction `Outlaw State' recalls Jesse James

Chicago Sun-Times | July 23, 2000| | Copyright

KEARNEY, Mo. A town where a notorious criminal once lived usually doesn't want to be remembered for the connection. Residents generally don't like thousands of people making pilgrimages to visit the birthplace of a brutal killer.

Likewise, for several decades the people of Kearney in northwest Missouri detested the town's connection to Jesse James, the 19th century outlaw born and raised here. And some residents of St. Joseph would have preferred if people remembered their city as the place where the Pony Express began, not where James died.

After all, James killed at least 17 people and ...

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