Alamo Fast Draw

Gunfighter W.C. Hall: Jesse is the descendant of Jesse James so, I’m sure he’s done a lot of research on that as well.

Gunfighter Jesse: Yeah, but you gotta watch out for a lot of your research sources ‘cuz you click on one thing and you read it and then you click on something else and you find something different.

Alamo Fast Draw: That’s exactly the point that I was trying to mention earlier.

Gunfighter Jesse: It’s hard to figure out what’s true and what isn’t so what I did is I went to Missouri to the family and I found out first hand that way instead of getting it from word of mouth and I found what I was looking for. You gotta a lot of stuff out there that you don’t know what to believe. Now you see you’re talking about going up the Chism Trail and going to a couple of museums and you can get information on who’s coming through there and that’s better than getting just what everybody’s saying out there. You’ll get a lot of good information that way.

Gunfighter W.C. Hall: Do you want to hear something funny about that? The Chism Trail from what I read. I was reading an article today before Blackbird called me today to come meet you. The Chism trail they say started in Missouri.

Alamo Fast Draw: [Laughs]

W.C.Hall: If anybody got any common sense, they know that the Chism Trail started south of San Antonio Texas.

Gunfighter Jesse: On John Chism’s ranch.

Gunfighter Bob: Hey Jesse, are you still there? We found some kin folk wrapped around each other somewhere in the back woods there. My ancestors moved to Missouri in 1822 and the majority of the family left in 1942. For about 120 years they were in Mary’s county.

Alamo Fast Draw: Is he talking about the kinfolk around the Nashville, Springfield Missouri area?

Gunfighter Jesse: Yes, as a matter of fact they do. A lot of the James’, of course there have been a lot of married change from the ladies’ side and stuff like that, but they’ve moved quite a bit through Missouri and Kansas. I mean not Kansas. I’m in Kansas, too. And Arkansas. But yeah, they’ve moved around quite a bit. We even got some in Tennessee now.

Alamo Fast Draw: My family, from my dad’s side of the family moved into Missouri, too. the Springfield area back in the 1800’s because of the civil war.

Gunfighter Jesse: Yeah, there’s was much of that. Lots of families moved out because of the civil war and kind of got scattered around. When the James family has a reunion there’s some land that they cord off. It probably takes about a hundred acres. There’re probably about ten thousand of us that show up. Now, there’s a lot of Smiths and Jones and things like that are in the family reunion. It’s like a family reunion. A lot of them are documented. It’s pretty cool to sit there.

Gunfighter W.C. Hall: Next year there will be a Hall reunion.

Gunfighter Jesse: That would be a lot of fun to do, to check out the Chism Trail again and see what you can come up with. I’d probably like to be involved in that too. I officially like to be involved in that too.

Alamo Fast Draw:Yeah. That’d be fun.

Gunfighter Jesse: I mean, there’s stuff that started out in Mexico that started the trail and stuff.

Gunfighter W.C. Hall: Well, here’s the deal. I was gonna put a piece together on the Cowboys and the first ride on the Longhorns. I did an extensive amount of research. I almost took up an entire hard drive on the computer full of Longhorn information. The Longhorns actually started in Argentina. Okay. The breed of the Longhorn actually started in Argentina. They bred an Argentinean bull with a Longhorn cow in Argentina.

This breed took over because this breed could withhold anything. They were unstoppable. There was no ticks and no disease that could kill them. They actually gained weight on trails out of nothing.

Well, here we go again. That is living history right there gentleman. The stuff I read today, one of them said that the Longhorn originated in New York.

Alamo Fast Draw: [Laughs]

Gunfighter W.C.Hall: I don’t know who the hell decided that lie. And then one of them said that the first Longhorn steer was born in 1864 in Tijuana Mexico between a Mexican fighting bull and an American calf. It just like Ledslinger said, you have to be real careful before you report something because it could be false.

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