"EVERY STORY TOLD IS A LIFE LIVED AND EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY"
"WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND!"
The most famous OUTLAW LEGEND - JESSE JAMES
"A legend is an unverifiable story handed down from the past, or a famous & admired person".
Outlaws were secretive, deceptive, used aliases & families hid them out of shame.
Photographs are the only true record we have of them. Today, ancestry registries & online auctions make it possible to track them down as they make their way out of dusty attics & long forgotten trunks.
As always, they are hiding in plain sight!
JESSE JAMES as Mr. JD Howard, a 'wheat speculator"
in 1875 according to the "Nashville Banner".
THE MANY FACES OF JESSE JAMES
Robber or Robin Hood?
Facial recognition is used in forensics, and can also be used to verify photographic treasures
that lack provenance. As AI becomes more accessible to science & the public, historically important photographs can be authenticated & then hopefully accepted, so they are not lost forever to history!
Each of us can become a "history detective".
"ALIAS DICTUS OUTLAW LEGENDS"
"Every story told is a life lived."
LET'S GET STARTED !
Jesse Woodson James was a boy whose life was interrupted by family tragedies &
an extremely violent war of brother against brother. As it was for many others,
for him that war never ended. He left it with a bullet in his chest, received while
attempting to surrender to Union troops under a white flag,
despite the promise of pardons.
"Every rose has it's thorn".
JESSE WOODSON JAMES and ALEXANDER FRANKLIN "FRANK" JAMES
There were never closer brothers.
Visit the "FRANK JAMES" page.
ARCHIE "Little Arch" CLEMENT Quantrill's Raiders and First Leader of the James - Younger Gang
Archie planned & carried out the first daylight bank robbery in American history!