VP Beast Butler?

[Wild Bill]

Oddly, Galveston, Texas, which had a reputation of being against occupation forces after the Civil War during Reconstruction, especially if black soldiers, lauded the all black 10th US Colored Infantry for its exemplary behavior in 1866. They were glad to get rid of the all white 17th US Inf which was known for its rowdyism and picking fights with citizens. The 17th soon burned the business district of near-by Brenham, Texas, to the ground. The 10th was mustered out. See Richter, "The Brenham Fire of 1866: A Texas Reconstruction Atrocity," Louisiana Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 14 (1975), 287-314.

The bank in Northfield, Min., was owned by Butler's son-in-law, Adelbert Ames, who was once the military governor of Mississippi. The relevant books are TJ Stiles, Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War and Mark Lee Gardner, Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, The Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape. They are both good reads. I also like Will Henry's The Raiders on the James-Younger Gang. But it is historical fiction (more history than fiction) like my Last Confederate Heroes and some may not like that format.