Jesse James Treasures: Do They Likely Still Exist?

Go to the "Library of Congress" Read the deposition of Frank James his alias and his brother Jesse James and his alias also Records on the Dalton Gang and the Younger Gang along with Pinkerton Records.
 

BASIC info from MY R & I is this... JJ, FJ, JFD/FD, CSA, & the Knights of the Golden Circle are ALL mixed together, in Tenn. & Va. Look for CONFEDERATE KNIGHTS!
 

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Stillll Reading Guys...It Is Monday Night Football In KC...The Broncos Are In Town!! Denver just fumbled again for the 4th Time!!

I'll try and be caught up by your one hour ahead of me morning coffee on LOC..Brentwood, Slate Mountain, KGC, Confederate Knights!!
 

I REALLY like those Dallas Cowboys Cheer-Leaders... AND! They talk funny. NO MO "Tuesday Morning Quarter-Backing", heh.
 

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Rebel - KGC said:
Yer REALLY watching those CHEER-LEADERS, aren't ya...? LOL!
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Reb!!....I was watching the game!! lol!!Chiefs Won!! Stayed Up Waaay Too Late After The Game Celebrating!!
 

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I'm not completely done with the reading assignments, I ended up here on the 19 page KGC thread, battlefield. That took awhile.

Searching Brentwood and Slate Mountain took me there...

Anyway, whenever you guys are ready...
 

To find the Brentwood Depository first you are going to have to find "anthracite coal' Now that is not easy to find in Tennessee as most is in Pennsylvania. There is some and where the anthracite coal mines are located around Brentwood should be where the Depository is located?
 

This is just something that I think kinda explains a little bit why the legend of Jesse James has and will continue to be fascinating for generations...

The western channel was on in the background the other day and The Rifleman was on. I hadn't really been paying too much attention to it but then I heard the US Marshall character talking about 'large gold shipments' that were being stolen.... He says, 'A man named James Up in Missouri and his gang are causing a lot of ruckus...They Won't Let The War End'

I grew up watching reruns of all of those old Western shows with my Dad. Probably most of us watched them. Even Little House on the Prairie had a couple of different episodes regarding Jesse and Frank James. Most of the old westerns had some episodes about Jesse James. More recently the movie, Rooster Cogburn had what was supposed to be Frank James and Cole Younger touring in their Wild West show.

Whether it's about stolen gold and silver, when he could of died, the Civil War etc...The legend of Jesse James lives on and will continue to live on for future generations fascinating the new kids just like he and the stories fascinated Us! I think that's pretty cool that someone I read about, heard about and saw in the movies and on TV is Still as big of a draw Now as he was when I was a kid!
 

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To find the Brentwood Depository first you are going to have to find "anthracite coal' Now that is not easy to find in Tennessee as most is in Pennsylvania. There is some and where the anthracite coal mines are located around Brentwood should be where the Depository is located?
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Ok, I'll look and see what I can learn about it.

Is there a particular reason that an anthracite coal mine was chosen for a depository?
 

Kace said:
Ok, I'll look and see what I can learn about it.

Is there a particular reason that an anthracite coal mine was chosen for a depository?
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No except most of the coal in Tennessee is bituminous coal, which is soft coal. That may have chosen an anthracite coal mine because the roof would be more stable with the harder coal? I can find very little on anthracite coal in Tennessee. But that is what is on the map. I have found a Slate Mountain but not in Tennessee?
 

There is Bon Air Mountain on the border of White and Cumberland Counties that has both bituminous coal and anthracite coal.

Bituminous and Anthracite Coal mines along the Cumberland Plateau. The Railroad was extended from McMinnville to Sparta in 1884.

Shaft Mines were a minimum of 180' deep

I've been in coal mines in West Virginia and Ohio... the mines in West Virginia were shaft mines, Very Deep and Long into the mountains, many passages and the Ohio mines were either strip...Very Deep or Shallow, less than 20' deep.

I don't know if this would help but the Hard ROCK mining can go very deep too and has many different passages. We stored some cars in a Hard Rock mine... the temperature stayed the same year round. The cars were 220' underground. You wouldn't know it if it wasn't marked. Of course the floors were concrete...the roof had the same bolts and plates as the mines in West Virginia. The measuring marks on the roof were Very Old and you could tell the writing styles of different eras.
 

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Kace said:
There is Bon Air Mountain on the border of White and Cumberland Counties that has both bituminous coal and anthracite coal.

Bituminous and Anthracite Coal mines along the Cumberland Plateau. The Railroad was extended from McMinnville to Sparta in 1884.

Shaft Mines were a minimum of 180' deep

I've been in coal mines in West Virginia and Ohio... the mines in West Virginia were shaft mines, Very Deep and Long into the mountains, many passages and the Ohio mines were either strip...Very Deep or Shallow, less than 20' deep.

I don't know if this would help but the Hard ROCK mining can go very deep too and has many different passages. We stored some cars in a Hard Rock mine... the temperature stayed the same year round. The cars were 220' underground. You wouldn't know it if it wasn't marked. Of course the floors were concrete...the roof had the same bolts and plates as the mines in West Virginia. The measuring marks on the roof were Very Old and you could tell the writing styles of different eras.
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So is Brentwood in the Cumberland Plateau?
 

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So is Brentwood in the Cumberland Plateau?
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It's just East of the Nashville Basin...Brentwood is by Nashville.

It's also close to the Cumberland River.

The Nashville Dome is also close by which is Rock Strata that lifted causing the Basin.
 

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