Editing Bank robbery (section)

===Bank robbery on the American frontier===

Bank robbery is commonly associated with the American [[American frontier|Old West]] due to a few infamous examples and portrayal in fiction. The [[Foundation for Economic Education]] (FEE) in their research, found the scene of the Western bank-robbery to be generally a myth, identifying less than 10 definite bank robberies between 1859 and 1900 across 15 frontier states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fee.org/articles/the-non-existent-frontier-bank-robbery/|title = The Non-Existent Frontier Bank Robbery &#124; Larry Schweikart|date = January 2001}}</ref> [[Grunge.com]] pointed out that FEE's research was conducted before many states and the Library of Congress began publishing historical newspapers online, and while bank robberies in the Old West were still uncommon, there were many more than previously assessed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grunge.com/330470/the-truth-about-wild-west-bank-robberies/|title = The Truth About Wild West Bank Robberies|date = 9 February 2021}}</ref>

On February 13, 1866, several men believed to be members of the [[James-Younger Gang]] robbed the [[Clay County Savings Association Building|Clay County Savings Association]] in [[Liberty, Missouri]], shooting to death an innocent street bystander, 17-year-old student George Clifford "Jolly" Wymore, and escaping with $60,000. This was the first successful daylight bank robbery during peacetime in the US.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jesse James – First Bank Robbery|url=http://www.biography.com/people/jesse-james-9352646/videos/jesse-james-first-bank-robbery-30235203522|access-date=5 March 2017|website=Biography}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=22 December 1996|title=The James – Younger Gang – Robberies|url=http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/clay.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961222121213/http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/clay.htm|archive-date=22 December 1996|access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.visitkc.com/member-details/index.aspx?id=10337 |title= Kansas City Tourist Office |publisher= Visitkc.com |access-date= 2012-03-28}}</ref> Previous robberies such as from the banks in [[St. Albans (city), Vermont|St. Albans, Vermont]] more than a year earlier were perpetrated by [[Confederate States Army|Confederate soldiers]], which some historians consider to be not robberies proper but [[Casus belli|acts of war]].<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHhY4qAvdcC&q=first+daylight+bank+robbery&pg=PA34 |title= Jesse James Was His Name, by William A Settle Jr |access-date= 2012-03-28|isbn= 978-0803258600 |last1= Settle |first1= William A. |year= 1977 |publisher= U of Nebraska Press }}</ref>