Talking Jesse James w/ Mark West

Mysterious Circumstances

13 Stars Media

Personal Journals, True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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All you history geeks out there will love this. I got a chance to talk to a relative of Jesse James. We talk about his childhood, his life, and of course his death. If you enjoyed the four part series I did on Jesse James, you'll love this.
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0:00.0	Welcome to mysterious circumstances and for those of you who enjoyed the Jesse James
0:05.3	episodes that I did the series you are really going to enjoy this episode because
0:10.2	this is you know a relative of Jesse James and I got the opportunity to talk to him on the phone
0:16.5	last night and just a mountain of information. Like I love your knowledge obviously and could you please introduce yourself?
0:25.0	Yeah, my name is Mark West. I'm from New York. My self and Justin are both Devil Dogs.
0:33.0	Ura.
0:34.0	I always tell people I was born a Yankee by birth, a rebel by choice. I like to think of myself as more of a rebel even though I live in New York.
0:47.0	Hey, you know what, same with me, man.
0:50.0	Even though I did some research online a few years back on ancestry finding who my real family was, I was raised as a foster kid, so I was looking at my real family under the West name. I got a bunch of
1:05.1	information and dated it back to the 1500s from England and whatnot and most of
1:10.1	them settled in New York and thought nothing of it for quite a few years and then I'm a mailman so I drive around in my jeep all day delivering mail so I got a lot of time so I listened to
1:28.7	podcasts and different YouTube stories and I was listening to the book, the audio book that Jesse James's son, Jesse James Jr. wrote in 1899.
1:35.0	Throughout this book, at one point they mentioned when
1:40.0	Jesse James got shot in the lung when he was trying to surrender at the end of the Civil War,
1:46.4	how he was taken back to his mother's house by Steamboat and one of his fellow Confederates there went along with him and the guy's name was Richard West.
1:58.0	So I'm like, oh, I got to look this up.
2:01.0	Well, come to find out Richard West's father was Tillman West. Tillman West was married to Elizabeth
2:08.1	James, which was Jesse's aunt.
2:10.2	Jesse's father and Elizabeth were brother and sister
2:13.0	and Tillman married Elizabeth and they had a bunch of kids and Richard West was one of them.
2:18.0	So I'm like, well that's cool, the West's name is associated with the James name.
2:23.0	So I'm like, wouldn't it be awesome if it was related to this West?
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