[WILD WEST] Jesse James Gang CDVs

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Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

By Fleischer's Auctions

Oct 10, 2025

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Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com

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  Grouping of four (4) carte-de-visite photographs of the Jesse James Gang involved in the attempted robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield. Views include: 

  
  1. Charley Pitts. Half-length albumen postmortem view. St. Paul, Minnesota: C.W. Stiff, 1876. Period ink identification to mount recto. Photographer’s imprint & copyright to mount verso. Printed description of “The Northfield Robbers” to mount verso. 
          

  Postmortem view of Charley Pitts (1844-1876), taken after his body was recovered from a shoot-out in Hanska Slough after the Northfield raid. The fatal bullet wound is clearly visible in the center of his chest. 

   

  2. Clell Miller. Half-length albumen postmortem view. St. Paul, Minnesota: C.W. Stiff, 1876. Period ink identification to mount recto. Photographer’s imprint & copyright to mount verso. Printed description of “The Northfield Robbers” to mount verso. 

   

  Postmortem view of Clell Miller (1850-1876), killed at Northfield, Minnesota, on 7 September 1876 during the gang's raid and attempted robbery of the First National Bank of Northfield. Blood can be seen from the fatal bullet hole in his shoulder. 

  
  3. Bill Chadwell. Half-length albumen postmortem view. St. Paul, Minnesota: C.W. Stiff, 1876. Period ink identification to mount recto. Photographer’s imprint & copyright to mount verso. Printed description of “The Northfield Robbers” to mount verso. 

  
  Postmortem view of Bill Chadwell (18[40s]-1876), also killed during the  Northfield robbery. 

   

  4. The Northfield Robbers albumen composite view. St. Paul, Minnesota: C.W. Stiff, 1876. Photographers' imprint printed to mount recto.

   

  Composite photograph of six members of the James–Younger Gang associated with the failed robbery of the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, on September 7, 1876. The sitters (Bob Younger, Cole Younger, Jim Younger, Charlie Pitts, Clell Miller, and Bill Chadwell) are each identified by captions. All six were killed or captured during the raid and its ensuing pursuit.

   

  On the afternoon of September 7, 1876, three robbers entered the Northfield bank, vaulted the counter, and demanded that the safe be opened. Cashier Joseph Lee Heywood refused, and townspeople quickly armed themselves in resistance. Forced to flee with only loose change from the counter, the gang was fired upon as it escaped: Miller and Chadwell were shot dead in the streets, while the others split up and attempted to elude capture.

   

  Two weeks later, near Madelia, Minnesota, a posse intercepted Charlie Pitts and the Younger brothers. Pitts was killed in the exchange, while Bob, Cole, and Jim Younger (badly wounded) were captured and sentenced to life imprisonment. Frank and Jesse James escaped back to Missouri.

   

  This composite brings together the principal fugitives whose fates effectively ended the James–Younger partnership, documenting one of the most consequential thwarted bank robberies of the nineteenth century and the citizen resistance that unraveled it.

   

   

  [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]
   

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