Showing posts with label Wild West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild West. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Another Look: The Ballad of Jesse James

Original post here.

Sherwood Ross apparently took umbrage at the "lies" told in "The Ballad of Jesse James" and decided to write his own version.


Poor Jesse was not poor
That's a lot of horse manure
He stole half a million from the till;
He was 34 years old
And his only god was gold
And nary a single rich man did he kill.

Ouch.  Then again, this Jesse James never cheated on America's Sweetheart.


You can see the entire song here.


Saturday, September 25, 2010

Bucket of Blood Saloon, Virginia City, NV


At the beginning of August I went to visit friends in Reno.  My friend Cherry took me up to Virginia City.  I saw this.  They claim to be the original Bucket of Blood.  Inside it's mostly slot machines (in Nevada? No way!) but I thought the sign was pretty cool.