Jesse James Henry rifle

[Henry4440]

Here is a little story i found:
Atlanta Constitution, February 12, 1875
Reprinted from the Kansas City News

JESSE JAMES
How He Dined with Forty-Six Missiles of Death About His Person

At this time anything connected with the James boys is of interest to the people of this section [western Missouri] especially, and we give the following account of how Jesse James appeared at a house about the 18th of last month, only a few days prior to the affair near Kearney. He rode up in front of the house about noon, and asked the proprietor, whom he knew, if he could get dinner. Being replied in the affirmative, he asked if there were any dangerous people around, and the answer being satisfactory, he looked carefully in all directions and then dismounted. He entered the house, and walking to a back door, opened it, and looked around, quietly remarking that he wanted to know a way to retreat if it became necessary. He carried a fine Henry rifle with him, and after removing his great coat, the butts of five large, six-shooting Remington revolvers were disclosed, showing that with the rifle, he had forty-six missiles of death ready for anyone coming to interfere with his liberty. When his dinner was announced, he again looked out at the doors, and seating then himself at the table, with his rifle across his lap, dispatched his meal with a hearty relish and in the most unconcerned manner possible, save with an occasional glance through the windows, keeping up, meanwhile, a pleasant conversation with his host. What two or three or four men would have relished the task of appearing in the doorway and interrupting that outlaw's dinner with a demand to surrender? Their only hope to save their lives, or at least the life of one or more of them, would be to get the first shot, and that an unerring and fatal one.

[Fox Creek Kid]

That story is so steeped in BS it practically drips off the page. 

[Henry4440]

That story is so steeped in BS it practically drips off the page. 

Yo,nice little newspaper story.
Have they changed in the last 133 years?

[Books OToole]

At least they got the potential round count right.

Books

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy Boys

I'm not quite sure what you fellows are driving at. To me it seemed like pretty typical 19th Century journalism. Have you read many 19th Century newspaper stories? They often used much more flowery language than we do today, and most 19th Century journalists never used 10 words to say something if they could use 20 instead.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Yep- Drifty's got a point!