Arkansas

"When I come to Arkansas, stages was running from Little Rock down

toward Pine Bluff. Jesse James robbed the Pine Bluff train. That about

the first train came in. They cut down the trees across the train track.

They had a wooden gun and they went in there and robbed that train with

it. They sent him to the pen and he learned a trade making cigars.

"The Union Station was just like that hillside. It was just one street

in the town. I don't know what year nor nothing about it because when I

came here it was just like somebody didn't have any sense.

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