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For you Mizzou people there is a great little bookshop in Liberty that specializzes in Bushwacker memorabilia, clothing (they wore special shirts that could hold lots of ammo) and books. Great place. It's right near the bank that the James boys robbed and across the street from the old jail. The robbery was first daylight bank robbery in American history. Also, you should go to Bushwacker Days in Nevada, MO. Great thread by the way.

Is that Liberty Bank still a Jesse James Museum?

I also was wondering since I haven't been up there in awhile but do they still have the play about the James boys life at their old farmhouse up by Kearney Missouri? They used to have it on weekends through the summer.

And speaking of grave-sites I grew up in Independence Missouri and we used to go to this park called Hill Park. In the very back of it we went into this really small graveyard and that is where Frank James grave is.

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Posted by calitiger

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Posted on 6/25/12 at 12:47 pm to sfury

Yes, the bank is still a museum. I don't know about the play because I've only been to Kearny during the spring and autumn. I've been to Independence as well and there are some good historical sites there. I think that George Todd, another bushwacker commander, is also buried in that cemetery. Arch Clement was killed in Lexington (another great battlefield to visit) and is buried nearby. I had three ancestors who rode with Quantrill so this era has been an interest of mine for quite some time.
ETA: I just visited Northfield, MN recently and the bank there is also a James-Younger gang museum with some nice artifacts including Cole Younger's pistols and the bank's accounts book from that day in 1876.

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