As much as I love all the WWII content you have given us, I sure do love all of the old west history as well. Hope there is more to come. Thanks for all your hard work!!!
Brother, thank you. I'm a life long Missourian and a Civil War history geek. My state was a particular kind of hell, a cauldron within a maelstrom. It burned with long simmering familial hatreds, with grudges that needed settling. The war here was so very personal; and so very long. 1854 to 1882 and still being fought, in some respects today. Thank you for telling our story.
You were just down the road from Winston MO. Where the James gang waited in a train tunnel and waited for the train to arrive to rob it and the station. The tunnel and bridge itself is actually still there just off the highway in the woods. Everything is still original. All that’s been removed is the actual tracks. My wife grew up in Winston and took me on a small hike to the tunnel for our fourth date. She knew I loved history and stories about outlaws during the Victorian era. Coolest thing to be standing in the exact spot Jesse James and the boys was so many years ago. Knowing the exact stones of the tunnel witnessed this moment.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Awesome! Keep in mind if you park on the shoulder of the highway to go out to the tunnel (you can actually see the bridge tunnel from the highway) to be sure to park more in the grass. We had a Very nice state trooper inform us of this.lol
@@TheHistoryUnderground A couple more tidbits of info, while it crossed my mind, it’s actually a train bridge (not tunnel) to allow the train to pass over a small creek. The town actually has a small celebration every year called “Jesse James day” I believe. You can actually tour the station but the bridge has been left somewhat neglected because of the lack of funding. According to history a young man lost his life during the robbery. I’m assuming Jesses gang waited in the far side of the tunnel furthest away from the road which is now a main highway. So they wouldn’t be seen by passerby’s. There’s also a really old cemetery across the highway close by. A lot of other really neat and almost forgotten stories in this area of MO. Take care watch for snakes if you decide to go to the tunnel itself. It’s said some locals help take care of that area because the state won’t.
Before you said that they allowed Frank James to put some homey things in the cell and I saw the furniture. I thought of Mayberry and Aunt Bea making meals. The drop ceilibg was brutal
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totally rocking vid.. loved it I love your vids just came across you by accident. I lived in Missouri and it has a lot of history indeed. I will subscribe want to learn more... I cannot get out much anymore and this is how I see and learn the world! thank you for sharing
A girl i was dating when i was just out of high school. We spent a Christmas with her grandparents in Missouri. They showed me a family heirloom. It was a Remington new model army ( civil war pistol) they had town records showing there distant grandfather spent time in jail with Jesse James (must have not been a big thing because it was a few weeks for both). Story has they befriended each other, and Jesse James stayed at their house a few times. Jesse traded the Remington for a horse..have no idea if its really true but the info they showed me really made it seem possible. They also found a picture of jesse holding a Remington that looked identical to the one they had. The grip was slightly broken on the sides. Even in the picture of jesse the grip was broken. they seemed to be a perfect match. It was very interesting. The real reason i still think that might have been a true story is the picture and records of course. but they also kept it as a Secret. in a way they seemed ashamed. I only think they showed me. was i was dating this girl for many years. at the time it looked like i was going to be part of the family. Its funny looking back because that gun started my interest in antique firearms.
@@TheHistoryUnderground because of this sometime it makes me think of all the lost artifacts...They might not be lost. There owners just don't want them found.
Oh, Wow! That was great! I have loved period set rooms since I was a child. It just stimulates my imagination as to how people lived in another point in history and what they might have experienced. More please :)
While in the US Navy, I knew a guy from Northfield, Minn. His great uncle was in the street shootout when the gang tried to rob a bank there. Don't know if it's true or not, but he did know a lot about the history. Dates, names, and times, all passed down through his family.
I grew up in Northfield and still live 30 minutes north of there. We go down to the Defeat of Jesse James Day every September. It's a great get together for a small town. They do a reenactment every year with an actual shoot out. Everyone gets dressed up for the event. They close the streets for it. In Northfield, they celebrate it. It's part of Northfield's rich history.
It's more proper known as the war for SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE it was not civil because we were not two groups of people fighting for control of a tyrant government the SOUTHERN Nation formed its own government our own money and our own military therefore we were a free independent nation briefly when the union invaded us so it's much more proper to say the war for SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE! Truth and Reality people embrace it because it's a beautiful thing
Another fantastic (and a bit funny!) episode! How strange that the kid’s room was so close to the prisoners! Talk about a “scared straight” program!!! Thanks JD!
I wonder why Frank James was allowed to have such a nice cell? 🤔This was a fun video. Can’t imagine cooking for all those prisoners and raising kids around them. Great job JD this is why history is so much fun. Thank you!👍😁
JD Thank so much!! Another great episode!! My wife an I could watch all day !! You could even make your episodes longer. ! Never get bored with them ! We both seem like we know you personally! Thanks again! Semper fi LDR from southern Indiana
Thanks! Appreciate that. Gotta keep the episodes fairly short so that teachers can use them in the classroom. Plus, there’s only so much of this face that you can look at before you need a break.
J.D., You might enjoy the American Military Museum in Vincennes, Indiana. Just an hour north of Evansville and an hour south of Terre Haute. We were very impressed with it. Also, the Evansville Wartime Museum right by the airport off if Hiway 41 has some really impressive collections. Hope you can check them out.
You missed the clay county historical museum. And there is a really awesome mercantile on the square too! (Both are literally around the corner from the bank, the mercantile is privately owned and is a source for anything period (clothes, fabric, combs, books, etc) it's truly fantastic, it's heavily used by reenactors in the area.)
It is amazing how much American forgotten history is involved in Missouri alone. Thank you for covering these "small"details everyplace you go. Keep traveling. Oh, among suggestions for ideas, rail road decetives during the late 19th and early 20th Century. Many were used by the treasury department and several insurance carriers. My great grandfather was William Stamper and even was featured in a newspaper in Macon. Mo. It was a big deal at the time. I had some skelton keys he and a partner used in an undercover bust.
Great video, always learning and making me dig more into that time period! I hate to admit it, but I remember using "chamber pots" at my Mamaw's house in Kentucky! I was told #1 only, #2 had to wait for the outhouse in the morning! But man, Mamaw's feather bed was the best!
Excellent video! I am a graduate of William Jewell College in Liberty. The college campus is about a mile to the east from the bank museum. Although Frank and Jesse did not attend William Jewell, the James family is tied into the early history of the college. Robert James, Frank and Jesse’s father, was a Baptist minister in the Kearney-Liberty area. When the college was founded in 1849, Revered James signed the charter for the college, along with other members of the Missouri Baptist Convention. His name appears on my diploma. Reverend James left the Kearney-Liberty for California in the early 1850s. It is not known if he was looking for gold or preaching to the gold miners. He died in California without ever seeing his family again.
Great video !!!!!!!!!!!!! Frank did not look as good as that photo. Frank killed many people, including Heywood in MN. So do not forget what a jerk criminal he was. He was never convicted, however, and never did prison time.
Great work as always JD! And yes your Gettysburg videos are my favorite! I like all your videos, but Gettysburg holds a special place in my heart, and I thank you for the reverence you show on all your videos. That is important to me and I appreciate it!
I was in the bank building in the early 60's. Back then, it was a dry cleaners. The folks that were running the dry cleaners were used to history buffs stopping by, and almost required us to go into the vault.
born in kearney mo. frank james was pardon by governor and came back to live on farm. died in 1933. my grandfather farm was next to james farm my father told stories of giving frank a ride into town on ocasion. drove by james farm many times before it became a state park.
I would imagine that they screened off the area of the hanging guy........................... they likely removed the other guys from the area during the good hanging.
Someday, it would be very interesting if you did the Northfield raid and the escape route the James Younger gang took and trier ultimate demise. Love your videos, and have watched the vast majority of them. Keep up the great work
This is history of the purist form, actions and decisions made by persons who have had an overwhelming impact on the reform of a divided nation. Whether you choose to accept that these events truly took place, or think that you are able to erase these times for your own personal feelings and false learning of what is and what was. The biggest divide we as a species, are intact lack of knowledge of the golden rules and we separate ourselves from the moral decay that has been the downfall for our species, so are facts being replaced by feelings all over the world!? United we stand, divided we fall. May God bless us all.
JD. You need to quit your teaching job, and just take up teaching history through your channel. Your videos are incredible !!!!!! THANK. you Frank from montana....
Loving the Old West history series! We haven’t seen anything that you made that we didn’t like. You take great care to study the subject matter, videoing the subject & surrounding area & using the right music to pull it all together. Keep up the outstanding work.
In 1871 the James Gang robbed the Ocobock Bank in Corydon, IA for 10 grand. The actual safe is in the local museum there with a recreation of the bank you should check it out at the Prairie Trails Museum
My Aussie grandfather’s two younger brothers middle names were Frank and Jesse. I don’t think that was by accident! Their father was caught up in the Eureka uprising at Ballarat in the state of Victoria. All three served in the Great War my grandfather at Gallipoli and in Northern France. And the two younger ones in Northern France and in the Middle East. Jesse the youngest was gassed in April 1915. I know it’s not historically about the West. But the connections reach through time and educate us all. Especially during troubled times 🍀
I knew a dude at the pool hall named Jimmy King.. Bad dude.. Found out many years later his name was Jesse James King, and his brother’s name was Frank James King.. I remember I said something like “your parents must’ve hated you two,” and I could tell he was taken back and offended.. He asked me why I would say that, and I told him Jesse James has to be the biggest piece of shit in the history of this country.. As bad as he was, he didn’t say a word after that..
The Stephen King Movie “Sometimes They Come Back” was mostly filmed in Liberty as well. Where the main character stands on the corner a couple hundred feet from the bank door you can see the old liberty highschool which is still there. The James Farm is a few minutes north of Liberty and has wonderful tours where the James family descendants tell stuff about the raid there that you don’t see in the history books. Thanks for sharing!
Great video as always. Have you not been to Monticello in charlottesville? I looked through your videos and couldn't find it. Jefferson is buried there of course. And one family member that was super controversial several years ago
I live in Liberty. Man I sure wish I could have run into you while you were here. Its awesome to see you come to the area. If you get back this way, you need to check out the Civil War battlefield in Lexington, MO. It was known as the battle of the hemp bales.
I noticed in the cell with the Arthur and Harry Wright poster, it describes the murder of John Hess. If you read that paragraph below the pictures it says John Hess was shot dead by Arthur Hess. Is that a major typo or am I missing something??
I live in Whites Creek TN where Bill Ryan (alias Tom Hill)was arrested at the Whites Creek Saloon and Frank and Jesse left with families next day from Nashville
Another great episode. I love the flatpicking background music. The craftsmanship in those old structures is pretty cool. The stonework in the jail and the wood floors,moulding and turned 4 poster bed are really interesting. The whole worldview and morality of that period in the western US is so complex. Im always amazed by the fluidity of the outlaw/law enforcement boundary. So many individuals were both depending on timing and location. Thanks for continuing to make history entertaining and informative.
Damn.... you're a man of many hats. Vast knowledge it seems. Thanks for enlightening and entertaining me. I love military history but this video was great. Thank you !
I really like this Old West period perhaps the best. I wonder what security there was between the children's rooms of the jailer and the prisoner jail cells. If my parents had been living connected to the jail, I sure would have been scared to go to sleep at night. When the other prisoners saw some of their fellow inmates hung right in front of them might have been a means so that they were on their best behavior.
For a guy walking around with the camera trained on him, you deliver some good content brother. I think you’ve gotten better at it over the years. Keep it up for us free loaders that love history!
My Dad told me many years ago that Jesse James was shot and killed by another member of the James gang to collect a bounty placed on Jesse by the Governor
I am loving this. I hope your trip to Missouri was great. We have so much history here and it is wonderful to see you remind us all of the good, the bad and the ugly!
As an Arab and from the Gulf, I loved your channel very much and I am very interested in the American Civil War, and its great leaders, whether the North or the South, all of them are honest men.
Seriously fascinating jail. No public execution. But doing that in the jail would be hard on the prisoners. Like you, I could not believe that the child's bedroom was a short distance from the upstairs jail. Great video. Thanks.
Another great video! Was wondering if Lincoln’s walking cane was still on display at the bank in Liberty, pretty interesting story. Keep the videos coming.
JD I am subscribed to your channel (unusual for me I'm not subscribed to many) & enjoy it very much. But in this case I have a big objection I must voice. Please stop referring to the men who rode with Quantrill & Anderson as serving with them. Quantrill & Anderson served no one or nothing but themselves They were nothing but criminals & killers. They did not serve the confederacy. The war was just an excuse to be the outlaws they were with no consequences. Again I love your channel. Your videos are excellent & I know you put thought research & hard work into them
@@TheHistoryUnderground JD want research famous murder in North Carolina history look up Frankie Silvers happened here in Burke County . NC first woman he Hanged in NC
Yes, always fun to go to the lesser known sites. We had gone to Galena IL, and popped into their museum there. Turned the corner into one of their rooms to be faced with the 9 foot by 12 foot Thomas Nast painting "Peace in Union". A painting I've seen dozens of times in history books...just...right there.
Grew up in Clay County, and my maternal great-grandfather rode with Quantrill and the James Gang. Been by the bank hundreds of times, but never have been in it. Need to pay it a visit!
Feels like everyone in the country but a very few failed basic English in school. Look at this poster of Arthur and Harry Wright. 11:29 The last sentence reads, "Harry Wright was at the reigns of the carriage." To misquote Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY, "No one taught it REINS instead of REIGNS?"
The first "James Gang" crew was actually master-minded and actively led by Bill Anderson's notorious lieutenant, Archie Clement. The entire crew was drawn from members of Quantrill's Raiders.
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Grew up in Missouri, Jesse never should’ve gone to Northfield. Jesse James Day used to be Nov 21st, the day the Missouri legislature voted to secede from the Union, November 21st, 1861. The corrupt Yankee government in St Louis tried to override, but Missouri is the 12th Confederate state.
The 1859 Jail is a very special place. There’s a lot of rich history there. I used to do the ghost tours there with Dusk 2 Dawn Paranormal Investigations during October. Sadly the Jackson County Historical Society elected a new executive Director and they’ve gone a different direction with the jail. They were restoring it properly when we were working with them. I don’t know what you’re doing now.
JD - you should venture up to Northfield, MN to discuss the Great Northfield Raid. I remember back in the early 1980's that it was a major motion picture.
From a legless man, thanks for going upstairs. Crazy to think how public that hanging chamber was! And so close to children!! Times have changed that's for sure.
@@TheHistoryUnderground the tone of your voice when you said it!!! Oh my goodness, a stand up comic couldn’t have tickled my funny bone that well! Great job! (I’m still smiling!)
