Well, I've just got to jump in on this even though I only have a rumor to repeat. I grew up in Nevada, MO in Vernon County about 40 miles north of Joplin and nine miles east of the Kansas state line. (My last name was White and my dad was from Wisconsin but I don't connect with any of the Whites under current discussion.) My dad once told me that there were Whites who rode with Jesse James (that was before I worked out our family history) and that the James brothers had owned a clothing store in Nevada at some time in their career. I sometimes wonder now if it was not perhaps one of their relatives but that is what I was told in the 1950's. Since we only moved there in 1954, someone must have told him about it. Nevada has an interesting local history museum called the Bushwhacker Museum. For anyone looking to locate possible James associates, it might not hurt to look in Vernon County, MO. Hope this is useful to someone. Nancy