Anyone who knows the history of the West probably instantly recognizes this image. When Jesse James abandoned his children and his wife and his family, he freebooted himself west to Las Vegas. Jesse had in mind to re-establish his faded and flawed career as the high wire attraction his Civil War life on the partisan trapeze had prepared him to be. Jesse fancied himself as the focus of attention by adoring vacationers who would come from all those places where [...]
DOWNLOAD a deconstruction of Chapter 2, taken from the transcript of the History Channel’s program Jesse James’ Hidden Treasure. The file is in .pdf format, and already contains initial commentary. Deconstruction of Chapter 1 appears in a previous posting. After reading, post your comments, observations, etc. below. There are 8 chapters to this program. After all the chapters have been de-constructed and commented upon, the assembled 8 chapters of commentary will be made available in a single document. linkscolor = “993300″; [...]
I was appalled with this program on the History Channel. This program was something that should have been on Looney Tunes, not the History Channel. This entire program was based on speculation and treasure hunting myths. At no time was there any objective history shown throughout this program. Why would Jesse James spend time hiding treasure in Kansas? Kansas and Missouri were at war with each other for some five years before the Civil War started in the East. People [...]
