James Robert Cummins or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal. Cummins lived near

Kearney, Missouri Kearney is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States. The population per the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census was 10,404. The city was the birthplace of Jesse James, and there is an annual festival in the third weekend of Septembe ...

and rode with

Quantrill's Raiders Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro- Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as " bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank. ...

during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow

Bloody Bill Anderson William T. Anderson (c. 1840October 26, 1864), known by the nickname "Bloody Bill" Anderson, was a soldier who was one of the deadliest and most notorious Confederate States of America, Confederate Guerrilla warfare in the American Civil Wa ...

. A known horse thief, he joined up with the James-Younger Gang after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood and lived to an old age. In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." He died in the Old Soldiers Home at Higginsville, Missouri, on July 9, 1929.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cummins, James Robert 1847 births 1929 deaths People from Kearney, Missouri James–Younger Gang American outlaws Quantrill's Raiders