DODGE CITY (April 1939)

The civil war has ended. Armies disband--the nation

turns to the building of the West.

Kansas 1866

JESSE JAMES (January 1939)

After the tragic war between the states, America turned to

the winning of the West. The symbol of this era was the building

of the trans-continental railroads.

The advance of the railroad was, in some cases, predatory

and unscrupulous. Whole communities found themselves victimized

by an ever-growing orge--the Iron Horse.

It was this uncertain and lawless age that gave to the world,

for good or ill, its most famous outlaws, the brothers Frank and

Jesse James.