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Ron, the ranger with the gray mustache, says Jesse James didn’t die how they said he did. How’d he die, Ron? comes the cameraman’s voice. Ron says That’s why I’m digging this hole. The rangers map a grid onto the brown Kansan plain, to keep track of where the underground tunnel might be, and then Ron scans through the prairie to the layers of rock beneath it, hunting disruptions in stratification. For a treasure map, a series of petroglyphs carved in sandstone: turkey track, anchor, double-J for Jesse James. Lucky we’re here now, Ron tells the camera, These won’t last.