May 29, 2012
Worked this weekend on new images of the James Gang in Minnesota. Working on a big sucker called "They Took The Whole Road," portraying the James-Younger crew riding into Mankato (their original target for a bank raid). Here it is, a work in progress:
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Of course, after the unsuccessful raid the gang split up just prior to the Hanska Slough roundup and that led to this image: "And Then There Were Only Two Slamming Through The Sloughs":
![](http://api.ning.com:80/files/vzrWxlysczTcKg*BVvAw0zFxS7eTXVWf56P7u8rRN-GuC4DZFx-meyZSRp1Os8tOBjTLmWPefR5eeHIYCHgTNnUo2NjO*k1q/jesseandfrank.jpg)
Working from reference photos I took on September 10, 2001. I can't help but think of the next day when I view these.
"The eye of the beholder my govern what is seen."
—James MacGregor Burns