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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 38
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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JESSE JAMES WAS ONE OF HIS NAMES -- IV
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Bibliography and Partial List of Sworn Statements
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(From: *Jesse James Was One Of His Names* by Del Schrader, with
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Jesse James III. Arcadia, California: Santa Anita Press, 1975.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-33962)
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*Jesse James Rides Again*, 1948, by Frank Hall and Lindsey
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Whitten. Covers "emergence" of Jesse W. James in Lawton,
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Oklahoma, May 19, 1948. Strong documentation to prove J. Frank
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Dalton really was Jesse W. James.
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"I Rode With Quantrill," August, 1937, Rocky Mountain News, by J.
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Frank Dalton. Story deals chiefly with Frank and Jesse James.
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Dalton says, "My name today isn't exactly what it was the day I
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enlisted under Quantrill's black flag."
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"Double Life of Jesse James." The National Police Gazette,
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March, 1951. "Privileged and confidential information truly
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reveals that 'Dalton' is Jesse James."
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Columnist Robert Ruark. In three national columns the late
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author wrote, "J. Frank Dalton is the real Jesse W. James."
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(1948)
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Aunt Cora's Letters. She was Cora James Anderson, who died a few
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years ago [ca. 1972] in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a
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daughter of Jesse W. James by a Sioux Indian woman. Highly
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educated, she knew all the facts of her father's "lost years."
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"Who Lies Buried in Jesse James' Grave?" Real West Magazine,
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January, 1967, by Dr. W.D. Chesney. States Jesse James was not
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killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1882. Cites medical evidence
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of the corpse which was buried.
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*The Lost Cause*, a book published by J.L. James in 1961, states
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St. Joseph ["death" of Jesse James] was a "hoax." Tells about
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Jesse W. James' war record and has quotes from JWJ.
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*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop. Gives screwball
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background of actor John Wilkes Booth, which coincides with
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Confederate Underground secret records. Bishop has Booth dying
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in a Virginia barn.
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*This Was Frank James* by Sarah Vaughn Snow, 1969, who was a
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daughter of Frank James. She casts serious doubts that Jesse
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James, her uncle, was gunned down in St. Joseph, Missouri, in
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1882.
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*Notorious Ladies of the Frontier* by Harry S. Drago, 1969. He
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covers "emergence" of Jean Hickock McCormick in 1941, which
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coincides with James family records.
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Search Magazine, September 1968. Editor Ray Palmer helped in
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identification of J. Frank Dalton as Jesse W. James in 1948.
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True Magazine, September, 1947, ran photo of Jesse, Frank James
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and their Kentucky mother which was so identified. The old photo
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was found in a cabin near Bottomless lake, New Mexico, in 1940s
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by man named Yourkes.
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*Jesse James the Outlaw* by Henry Walker.
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*The Truth About Jesse James* by Phyllis Argall.
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*Jesse James Was My Neighbor* by Homer Croy.
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*Jesse James Was His Name* by William A. Settle, Jr.
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*The Complete Authentic Life of Jesse James* by Carl Breihan.
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*The Private Papers* by Jesse James III.
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"Jesse James Alive in 1949," by George McGrath. Police Gazette,
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April 1950.
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"More Proof -- Murder of Jesse James a Hoax," by George McGrath.
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Police Gazette, August 1950.
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*Cow By The Tail* by Jesse James Benson.
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List of Sworn Statements (Sample)
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Fulton County, Georgia, December 31, 1948, by Young Mathis. His
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mother and Jesse W. James' mother were first cousins. Identified
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Jesse W. James.
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Lawton, Oklahoma, May 19, 1948. All Jennings, reformed outlaw:
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"It's him. That's the face. My word of honor."
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Escambia County, Florida, October 26, 1948, by Joseph L. Hines,
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who was Jesse R. (Dingus) James, JWJ's first cousin: "He is the
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real Jesse W. James alright. I would know him anywhere. He
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pulled the biggest deal of all time in St. Jo., Missouri, April
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3, 1882. I know all about it."
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County of Alameda, California, Feb. 5, 1949, by Florence Corbett,
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daughter of "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the heavyweight champion,
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who was a first cousin of Jesse W. James. "I positively identify
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this man as Jesse James who once stayed with us for more than 11
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months near Mooringsport along the Texas-Louisiana border."
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Jackson County, Georgia, Dec. 16, 1948, by Harvey Devereaux
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James, 87, a second cousin of Jesse W. James. "After talking to
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him about happenings of the past, I'm sure this man is Jesse W.
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James."
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Logan County, Oklahoma, July 27, 1948, by R.E. James, 87: "I am
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a second cousin of Jesse W. James... am convinced after talking
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with him he is the real JWJ."
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Logan County, Oklahoma, July 27, 1948, by Eugene E. Robertson:
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"I worked for Frank James, 1910-1912, and he often told me his
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brother, Jesse W. James, was still alive and would come within 24
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hours if need be."
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Franklin County, Missouri, April 25, 1951, by Orrington Lucas,
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94: "I knew Frank and Jesse James well as a youth. I swear this
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white-bearded old gunman to be Jesse W. James."
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Escambia County, Florida, Oct. 26, 1948, by Eliza, Jon and
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William E. Thompson: "We are grandchildren of Harriet James,
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oldest sister of Frank and Jesse James, and we are convinced this
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man is Jesse W. James."
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Houston County, Texas, May 7, 1948, by Mary M. James: "This is
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the same man who visited us in Lufkin, Texas, when I was 10. He
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was using the alias of Jesse Redmond then."
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Logan County, Oklahoma, June 9, 1952, by Emma Hardy Norman: "In
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the winter of 1892 Frank and Jesse James visited our home in
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Greenbriar, Arkansas., and I believe this old man to be Jesse
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James."
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Henry County, Missouri, Oct. 27, 1948, by James Howard Wells:
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"My father, J.H. Wells, knew Jesse W. James, and 'J. Frank
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Dalton' has answered my questions correctly. I am convinced he
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is the real Jesse W. James."
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Los Angeles County, California, Dec. 4, 1948, by James D. Fay:
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"The way he answered all the questions I put to him, some of them
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back to 1864, caused me to firmly believe he is the real Jesse
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James."
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Forest County, Wisconsin, June 17, 1950, by George Washington
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Gibson: "I have never forgotten him, nor could I mistake anyone
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else for him now."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, Aug. 7, 1959, by Henry Perry Ross:
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"My father went to school with the Missouri Jesse and Frank James
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and Kentucky Dr. Frank James and his younger brother, Jesse
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James. Long after Jesse W. James was presumed killed in St.
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Joseph, Missouri, 1882, he came to see and visit my dad almost
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every summer."
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El Paso County, Colorado, June 7, 1960, by John Gibson: "My
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father was born a slave. Negroes of their day saw to it that
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nobody sneaked up on Jesse or Frank James. They were fine white
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men and helped out many poor colored folks. The last time I saw
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Jesse W. James was at the Happy Hollow Shooting Gallery at Hot
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Springs, Arkansas, and his grandson, Jesse James III was with
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him. This was probably in the 1920s. It was the real Jesse W.
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James who revealed himself in Lawton, Oklahoma, in May, 1948."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, Oct. 31, 1960, by Willard Olive:
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"The very first money I ever got was from Jesse James, a silver
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dollar, back in about 1896, 14 years after he was supposedly
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killed in Missouri. I never knew Jesse any place but in North
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Dakota, but I'd know him anywhere."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, June 29, 1959, by Reverend Charles
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P. Cruts: "In the early 1920s Jesse James used to come to old
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Colorado City every summer. We knew he had not died as
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historians said."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, May 28, 1960, by Reverend William
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Curtis: "My father and uncle worked for Jesse and Frank James,
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long after Jesse was presumed shot in the back. All our lives
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members of our family kept Jesse's secret. We have seen him many
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times through the years. He is what he says he is -- Jesse W.
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James."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, Dec. 29, 1960, by George Martinez:
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"When I lived in New Mexico near Taos I knew Jesse W. James and
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Billy the Kid, long after they were supposed to be killed."
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County of El Paso, Colorado, Dec. 31, 1959, by Frank Curtis:
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"I'm a Negro who was with Jesse W. James on June 25, 1876, when
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he passed out new repeating rifles to the Indians who killed
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Custer. I knew John Trammell, Lucky Johnson, etc. I know a lot
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of secrets of J.W. James. He lived to be 107."
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://feustel.mixi.net
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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