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'''James Robert Cummins''' or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal. |
'''James Robert Cummins''' or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal. |
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Cummins lived near [[Kearney, Missouri]] and rode with [[Quantrill's Raiders]] during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow “Bloody” Bill Anderson. A known horse thief, he joined up with the [[James-Younger gang|James-Younger Gang]] after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. <ref name=OutlawSummary>{{cite web|title=James and Youngers|url=http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/history/jamesgangoutlaws.htm|work=Civil War St. Louis|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref> At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood <ref name=OutlawSummary /> and lived to an old age. |
Cummins lived near [[Kearney, Missouri]] and rode with [[Quantrill's Raiders]] during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow “Bloody” Bill Anderson. A known horse thief, he joined up with the [[James-Younger gang|James-Younger Gang]] after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. <ref name=OutlawSummary>{{cite web|title=James and Youngers|url=http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/history/jamesgangoutlaws.htm|work=Civil War St. Louis|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref> At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood <ref name=OutlawSummary /> and lived to an old age. |
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In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." <ref name=LibraryItem>{{cite web|title=Missouri Valley Special Collections : Item Viewer|url=http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/outlaws&CISOPTR=39&CISOBOX=1&REC=15|publisher=Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri}}</ref> He died in the [[Old soldiers' home|Old Soldiers Home]] at Higginsville Missouri on July 9, 1929. <ref name=death>{{cite news|title=Man Who Fought With Jesse James Loses His Greatest Struggle|url=http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/585331|accessdate=5 February 2014|newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star|date=July 11, 1929}}</ref> |
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James Robert Cummins or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal.
Cummins lived near Kearney, Missouri and rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow “Bloody” Bill Anderson. A known horse thief, he joined up with the James-Younger Gang after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. [1] At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood [1] and lived to an old age.
In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." [2] He died in the Old Soldiers Home at Higginsville Missouri on July 9, 1929. [3]
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References
- ^ a b "James and Youngers". Civil War St. Louis. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ "Missouri Valley Special Collections : Item Viewer". Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.
- ^ "Man Who Fought With Jesse James Loses His Greatest Struggle". Wilmington Morning Star. July 11, 1929. Retrieved 5 February 2014.