Robert Woodson "Wood" Hite (1850-4 December 1881) was an American outlaw who was affiliated with the James-Younger Gang of the Wild West.
Biography[]
Robert Woodson Hite was born in Logan, Kentucky in 1850, a maternal first cousin of Jesse and Frank James. He served in William T. Anderson's Confederate bushwhacker unit during the American Civil War, and, in 1876, he and his brother Clarence joined the James-Younger Gang after Jesse James' disastrous raid on Northfield, Minnesota. On 4 December 1881, while staying at the home of Robert Ford's widowed sister in Ray County, Missouri, Hite got into an argument with Dick Liddil over their shared attraction to Ford's sister, and Hite and Liddil's argument escalated into a gunfight in which Liddil was shot in the leg and Hite was shot in thte arm by Liddil and in the head by Ford. Liddil and Ford would go on to secretly betray Jesse James out of concern that James would attempt to avenge his cousin once he found out.
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