Jesse and Zerelda had to talk him out of it. When the brothers returned to Tennessee in the aftermath of the botched Northfield robbery in 1876, Frank took an assumed name, became a father, and settled down to life on the farm. Those years ``were the happiest I have spent since my boyhood," Frank later recalled, and "my old life grew more detestable the further I got from it." But Jesse was restless, chafing for the thrill of the armed robbery, and eventually he pulled Frank back into it.