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Cole Younger, photographed after his capture at the Northfield Bank Raid — sentenced to life in prison while Jesse James escaped into legend, Minnesota, 1876
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Cole Younger, photographed after his capture at the Northfield Bank Raid — sentenced to life in prison while Jesse James escaped into legend, Minnesota, 1876

u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 2 days ago
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Cole Younger, photographed after his capture at the Northfield Bank Raid — sentenced to life in prison while Jesse James escaped into legend, Minnesota, 1876 [526x852]

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After the Northfield bank raid of 1876, a medical student secretly dug up two of Jesse James's dead gang members and used them for anatomy class — the skeleton sat in his office for 50 years.

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u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 2 days ago
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The Black American soldiers who found more dignity in a British pub than in their own army

During WWII, Black American GIs stationed in Britain served under a segregated US Army that tried to extend its rules to British towns. But British locals — many with no prior exposure to Black people — frequently welcomed the soldiers, judging them as individuals. For many of these men, an ordinary evening in a British pub was the first time they'd been treated as an equal in public. A small but powerful piece of wartime history.

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u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 5 days ago
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The Jesse James "Robin Hood" myth has zero evidence — his outlaw career actually started with the death of an innocent bystander

There's no verified historical account of Jesse James ever giving stolen money to the poor. The Robin Hood story was essentially invented by newspaper editor John Newman Edwards, who acted as his unofficial publicist. His first robbery in 1866 ended with a college student, George Wymore, shot dead in the street — he had nothing to do with the bank. Interested in others' takes on how the legend outran the facts.

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After WWII, General Patton ran unauthorised cross-border missions to rescue American POWs Stalin refused to return - then died in a "minor traffic accident" 12 days after being relieved of command

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u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 9 days ago
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The Grunberg Mission: General Patton's unauthorised cross-border rescue operation to recover American POWs from Soviet-controlled territory after VE Day, 1945.

Patton's staff car after the December 9, 1945 collision outside Mannheim, Germany.

By the time of his death, Patton had spent most of 1945 running unauthorised rescue

operations that the official histories still barely cover.

The background:

After VE Day, the Yalta Agreement required all liberated POWs to be repatriated "as

rapidly as possible." Stalin signed it. His government then did the opposite. American

POWs liberated from German Stalags were being moved east, deeper into Soviet territory.

American verification teams authorised under Yalta were getting blocked at checkpoints.

General John Deane, head of the American military mission in Moscow, was warning

Washington that the Soviets had learned a formula - say yes, then do nothing.

Patton stopped waiting on diplomatic channels.

He pulled Russian-speaking officers from the Third Army and sent them east into

Soviet-controlled territory without authorisation. The operation was led by Major

Ernest Grunberg. Grunberg didn't bother with reports or paperwork. He found Americans,

got them on their feet, and pointed them west toward Third Army lines. No Soviet

permission. No Eisenhower approval. Just movement.

Eisenhower knew. Officially he disapproved. Operationally he allowed it to continue

because men who'd been written off were getting home.

The Soviets sent furious communications demanding the operations cease. The Americans

kept going.

By autumn 1945 Patton was making increasingly inflammatory public statements about

Soviet conduct. October he was relieved of Third Army command. December he was dead

in a "minor" traffic collision (pictured) that historians have disputed ever since.

The full count of how many Americans Grunberg's mission recovered, and how many

Americans never came home from Soviet custody at all, was never officially established.

Russian archives that might contain those answers remain partially sealed eight

decades on.

Sources:

- Wikipedia: George S. Patton (Death section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton

- Farago, Ladislas. *The Last Days of Patton* (1981)

- Deane, John R. *The Strange Alliance* (1947, contemporary account)

u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 9 days ago
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Billy the Kid, 1880, aged 20 — the only confirmed photograph in existence. In 1950, a man called Brushy Bill Roberts claimed to BE Billy the Kid, still alive at 90, with knowledge of the Lincoln County War never made public. The state of New Mexico refused his pardon. He died 3 months later.

u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 11 days ago
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How 9 Wild West Legends Died (2026) - The true deaths of frontier legends including Jedediah Smith, Hugh Glass, John Colter, Kit Carson and Liver-Eating Johnson [40:22]

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u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 13 days ago
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John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, photographed in 1877. Mountain man, Crow killer, and one of the most feared figures on the northern plains — he allegedly killed 300+ Crow warriors in revenge for his murdered wife. Robert Redford later played him in 'Jeremiah Johnson' (1972).

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John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, the legendary mountain man who waged a 1 year-long war against the Crow Nation, photographed in 1877. He allegedly killed 300+ warriors in revenge for his murdered wife and was later played by Robert Redford in 'Jeremiah Johnson' (1972).

u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 14 days ago
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John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, the legendary mountain man who waged a 1 year-long war against the Crow Nation, photographed in 1877. He allegedly killed 300+ warriors in revenge for his murdered wife and was later played by Robert Redford in 'Jeremiah Johnson' (1972).[1333×2000]

u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 14 days ago