THE STORY: Presents a portrait of Jesse James, showing, with a wealth of romantic and humorous detail, the outstanding events of the last part of the career of one of the most colorful characters in the annals of crime. James and his companions are shown first as solid citizens in a quiet community, then James goes to pay his note at a bank, but on the way he meets with an adventure in the cabin of a mountaineer widow which carries him on to the bank where, after paying his debt, he performs one of his most brilliant exploits. Back home, he becomes a deputy sheriff appointed to find the desperado Jesse James! Shortly thereafter he is betrayed by one of his own band, and the play ends with his half-humorous, half-pathetic funeral.
