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Is The Time-Life Photo Of The James Gang Authentic?

by | Feb 16, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

Is the Time-Life photo of the James Gang authentic? I have found a photo that has all these men in it. Robert Friedel Beaufort, Missouri Unfortunately, no. The photo that appears in Time-Life’s Old West series volume The Gunfighters is a fake. I ran the details you provided of your photo by some of our Old West photo experts, Robert G. McCubbin and John Boessenecker, and they confirm that this is also not a photo of Jesse James and his outlaw gang. Even if the first photo was authentic, yo


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