Richard Dalton Via Fax Frank James died peacefully of old age at the James farm in Clay County, Missouri, on February 18, 1915. His ashes were kept in a vault until his wife Annie’s death in 1944. Their ashes were interred together on her family’s property. Bob Ford was shot and killed by Ed O’Kelly in Ford’s saloon in Creede, Colorado, on June 8, 1892. Those tales of Frank James avenging Jesse’s murder were only in the fertile mind of Hollywood writers. Marshall Trimble is Arizona

November/December 2004
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- A True Country Brew
- Did Frank James die in the last shoot-out with the Ford that was still living?
- Who was Billy Wilson?
- Do you think Custer was seeking glory at Little Bighorn? And would he have turned down a presidential nomination if offered?
- Was Tom Horn a hired gun in the Pleasant Valley War?
- Following the Arkansas River
- Are there pictures of Zwing Hunt?
- As a girl in Kingman, Arizona, I took music lessons from Mrs. Cole, whose husband Walter told me he had been The Tombstone Epitaph editor and that he coined the phrase “Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die.”
- Did the Indians really use smoke signals or is that something out of Hollywood?