Before Jesse James Became an Old West Legend, Archie Clement Refused to Surrender After the Civil War — His Remarkable 1866 Crime Spree Helped Bridge the Era of Confederate Guerrillas and America’s Outlaw Gangs
The final gunfight in the frozen streets of Lexington, Missouri, was less a battle and more an execution, yet the man at the center of it refused to die quietly. Archibald Clement, the five-foot-tall terror of the Missouri bushwhackers, had been hunted for months by the state’s most ruthless enforcers. When they finally cornered him … Read more