Complex sentence: Some individuals, like Jesse James, became outlaws after serving in the Civil War and goverNment has a were simply men who took advantage of the wildness and lawlessness of the frontier to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
Split into simpler sentences: Some individuals, like Jesse James, became outlaws after serving in the Civil War. Some were simply men who took advantage of the wildness and lawlessness of the frontier to enrich themselves at the expense of others.