Original sentence: Eluding even the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the gang took upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars in today's value, disrupted railway operations, killed scores of men, cowered Robber Barons into hiring hundreds of bodyguards and detectives, and became the cause celebre of Confederate sympathizers and small farmers alike durin the Gilded Age.Groups like the James-Younger Gang operated as highwaymen to fund their other resistence activities in the post-bellum period.James and his compatriots were almost entirely former Confederate veterans and/or Partisan Rangers.James is believed to have carried out the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime, stealing over $1,000,000 dollars in today's money from a bank in Liberty, Missouri.Most were denied parole or pardon following the end of the war and through principle or survival joined the outlaw society of the period.The James-Younger Gangs most notorious events included the robberies of banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas and from Tennesse to California.The outlaw Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang were  infamous for their activities in the Old West.Though often cast by the sensationalist media of the time as a contemporary Robin Hoods, most were hardbitten men of violence who escaped to or embraced the frontier life.While James did harass railroad and corporate executives who unjustly seized private land or squashed small business for the railways and big business, modern biographers tend to stress that he did so for personal gain; forgetting that he and individuals like him were made outlaws by acts of Congress, Reconstruction, and powerfull business interests
Edited sentence: Eluding even the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the gang took thousands of dollars.James and his compatriots robbed their way across the Western frontier targeting banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas.James is believed to have carried out the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime, stealing $60,000 from a bank in Liberty, Missouri.The outlaw Jesse James was infamous for his activities in the Old West, though he was often cast by the sensationalist media of the time as a contemporary Robin Hood.While James did harass railroad executives who unjustly seized private land for the railways, modern biographers note that he did so for personal gain — his humanitarian acts were more fiction than fact