Taking place in Missouri in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James ... at the hands of Robert Ford the following April.

Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers ... Ironically, Jesse thought the Ford brothers were the last two people he could trust. So that March the outlaw invited ...

The notorious outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed in the house on April 3, 1882, by Bob Ford, a member of the James gang, ...