Jesse James or not - for your perusal

[Rip Snorter]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14486239/Photo-outlaw-Jesse-James-140-years-really-Expert-gives-verdict-California-antiques-dealer-finds-chilling-unseen-image-tucked-inside-family-heirloom.html

[DukeSoprano]

Jesse James use to live at my great, great, another great? Grandparents boarding house, I wish I could of found an old picture of Jesse. 

I did however find a box of negatives taken from 1913 to 1917, I scanned them and inverted the colors, really cool to see how my relatives lived back then 

[watab kid]

i bet that was fun looking back , as to the OP it looks pretty close to authentic to me but forensic science could do a check with computer programs to prove it 

[Pat Riot]

I have personally met or have talked with people that own guns that were used by the Dalton gang. Currently that number is a dozen. Currently, the number I believe is Zero. 
 

I am not saying the claims of this guy with the Jesse James items is incorrect, but I have doubt. 

[Boggus Deal #64218]

1 minute ago, Pat Riot said:

I have personally met or have talked with people that own guns that were used by the Dalton gang. Currently that number is a dozen. Currently, the number I believe is Zero. 
 

I am not saying the claims of this guy with the Jesse James items is incorrect, but I have doubt. 

I own some really rare guns from New Mexico. None of them belonged to Billy the Kid!

[Cypress Sun]

I don't own any guns that were owned by Jesse.

 

I do own all THREE guns that Ford used to shoot Jesse with that fateful day...autographed too!

[Rube Burrows]

Ears are different as well as other stuff. Dont appear to be Jesse in the photo. 

[Dantankerous]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

I have personally met or have talked with people that own guns that were used by the Dalton gang. Currently that number is a dozen. Currently, the number I believe is Zero. 
 

I am not saying the claims of this guy with the Jesse James items is incorrect, but I have doubt. 

 

In the Dalton gang hideout and museum located in Meade, KS there are several old firearms there associated with that gang. Provenance included, as far as I remember. Neat museum.

 

Also in Coffeeville, KS at the Dalton museum there are a number of firearms displayed, provenance included as I remember.

 

Interesting how murdering thieves get two museums in one state.

[Rip Snorter]

Been years, but when I was last in Northfield, the bank was still there complete with some bullet holes.

[Cypress Sun]

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

In my 40+ years of living in the Kansas City area, I've run across a number of people who claim to have a personal connection by birth or association to Jesse James, or "reliable" knowledge that he didn't die in St. Joseph, MO.

 

I also heard Elvis was seen in my neighborhood recently...

[Windy City Kid]

A good friend of mine claims he is related to Curly Bill Brocius, same last name, different spelling. Is he or isn't he? Who knows. Fun  story though. 

[Trailrider #896]

Back in the early-70's, I worked at a defense contractor, and my immediate supervisor was named Bobbie Younger. I asked him if he was any relation to Cole and others, and he said there was some connection!

[Three Foot Johnson]

When my dad and his siblings were young, they used to spend a lot of time at a mountain ranch in the northern Big Belt mountains north of here. The old guy who owned it, "Bat" Smith, was a good friend of famed western artist Charlie Russell. Charlie died two or three years before my dad was born, but there were still some illustrated letters and envelopes around Bat's house. This wooden sculpture/carving belonged to Bat, and it's always been family lore that it was done by Charlie Russell. There is no buffalo skull & initials, no signature, or other markings on the piece to identify it as Russell's work, and Charlie wasn't known for working in wood, so who knows. With no provenance, it's a fifty dollar carving with a million dollar story.