Their names were Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday,Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok and the brothers Jesse and Frank James.
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Although in a quite remote corner of Marion County, it is visited by 50, 000 tourists a year, who not only get to see the production process but are regaled with tales of the outlaws FrankandJesseJames, who had connections with an earlier distiller on the site.
Films are steeped in lore of the little guy raging against injustice, sometimes based on historical figures such as Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, andFrankandJesseJames, said Elayne Rapping, a retired professor of American and media studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
Brad Pitt plays JesseJames, who is at the tail end of his career and joins up with his brother Frank (Sam Shepard) for one last train robbery, then spends the rest of the story skulking under an alias or settling scores.