SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Outlaw Jesse James paintings given to Garretson museum

This week in South Dakota history: July 3–9

Outlaw brothers Frank and Jesse James. (Photo courtesy Wikimedia)

The legend of outlaw Jesse James’ horseback-leap across Devil’s Gulch grew a little larger 25 years ago.

Thanks to a fourth-grade class, a local reporter and a museum-to-museum gift, the Garretson Historical Society received four oil paintings, including one that depicts the disputed jump, according to the July 5, 2001, edition of the Argus Leader.

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