Hi, I think I may have replied to you before. It may have been another Aultman checking Aultman tracks through Txerath in Erath County Texas and west. Are you aware of the Aultman- Taylor Tractor company? They started before 1920 and made large tractors with a steam engine appearance from a distance with a metal sun roof. One was droven from Stephenville to Pony Creek, Texas from the railroad in 1919 by the Riggs family. It was used for breaking land, building some county roads, and it ran each grain threshing season from 1919 into the 1960's except for a year or two in the World War 2 labor shortage. It wore out their wooden grain thresher and Walter Hollis's all metal one and I never saw it run over 1/2 throtle. Now for Jesse James, He seems to have had a few former associates in the family business who settled in Erath, Hood, Falls and other Texas counties according to old records constantly coming to light. One Mullins descendant from the Erath County Chalk Mountain Mullins family reports her grandad rode with Jesse. She found records in the Jesse James Museum and other Missouri sources and found one teenage Mullins was hanged . John Crockett of Missouri, Mexico, Erath County and Quannah , Texas used his real name, not an assumed one and was a friend of Jesse. Others in Erath changed their name from Quantrell to a name similar- this group included a high school friend of mine in Stephenville, Texas, so I will not quote it here- others on the Txerath site have reported this possible change. I only heard it this year. I understand some men moved from Jesse James's gang to Quantrell's band and to the Younger Brothers Gangs. The often crossed paths and visited. They had a common cause during the Civil War- Winning- and some were firm believers in the secret order of the Knights of the Golden Circle- a possible giant slave holding empire of the South, Mexico, Yucatan, Central America, and Cuba and the Caribean Islands. Brushy Bill Roberts of Hico, aka Billy the Kid had a dad who rode with some of the group and knew Jesse all his life- his McCarty- Bonney aunt who raised him had moved from Buffalo Gap, Texas, then to northern Oklahoma then New Mexico. His Roberts dad went from the Civil War Confederate Army and joined either the James or Youngers Brothers. Apparently they trained military style and rodeoed together. a friend of mine , a Wiley from Grosebeck, Texas who is a substitute teacher in Waco Schools and a former Houston security guard insists Jesse once lived near Grosebeck, Texas and Mr. Wiley's part Cherokee grandparents knew him. . This would match the J. Frank Dalton of Grandbury- same locations involved. I have been busy collecting Wyly records and adding to them and the Roberts line of one Wyly - Roberts certified Geneaologist has caused me to want to do more research on these connections. My great Grandad Robert Wyly of Ga., Texas and Tulsa, Ok. was in the Civil War and died in Tulsa after I started to school. He had 22 siblings and12 uncles and aunts, so we don't have a family tree- more like a Kudzu vine. If I find sources I will let you know. Try Missouri libraries and county offices. The James brothers had kin in Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and some worked as far north as Minnesota and as far west as Arizona, but I guess you knew that. Take care and happy hunting. Charles Wyly