TravelWorld International Magazine Fall 2022
The magazine written and photographed by North American Travel Journalists Association members.
The magazine written and photographed by North American Travel Journalists Association members.
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ST. JOSEPH<br />
Jesse James<br />
essie James is probably the<br />
west’s most well known<br />
figure. What some don’t<br />
know is he was thrust<br />
into violence at a young age<br />
when Jayhawkers tortured his<br />
stepfather and beat young Jesse to<br />
get them to tell the whereabouts<br />
of his brother, Frank. In his midteens,<br />
Jesse rode with Quantrill’s<br />
Bushwhackers.<br />
The home where Bob Ford<br />
shot Jesse in the back as he was<br />
hanging a picture on the wall was<br />
part of the Patee House Museum.<br />
The entire museum tells much of<br />
the history of Missouri, including<br />
the Pony Express. Its original<br />
desk is at the museum. Plan on<br />
spending a lot of time there.<br />
The James farm where Jesse was<br />
born is about an hour out of St.<br />
Joe and open for tours. You can<br />
view the home through the screen<br />
doors. The museum has a great<br />
documentary video about his life<br />
and death.<br />
The Walter<br />
Cronkite<br />
Memoral<br />
has a<br />
sculpture<br />
of a rocket<br />
launching<br />
commemorating<br />
Cronkite’s<br />
coverage<br />
of the<br />
launch<br />
Patee House has the<br />
actual furnishings form<br />
the original Pony Express<br />
Headquarters.<br />
The home where<br />
Jesse James was<br />
shot and killed.<br />
Pony Express & Billy Fry<br />
illy Fry and other pony<br />
express riders are represented.<br />
Anne led us through the<br />
Pony Express Museum and<br />
gave a detailed picture of life for the riders.<br />
There is an exhibit of Billy Fry, the first Pony<br />
Express rider preparing to leave St. Joe.<br />
Spectators who came to witness this earthshaking<br />
event cheered him on. Just imagine<br />
mail getting from St. Joe, Missouri, all the<br />
Home where<br />
Jesse James<br />
was born.<br />
Walter Cronkite<br />
Pony Express Museum<br />
exhibit of Billy Fry getting<br />
ready to make the first run.<br />
way to California in just ten days. I<br />
entered a typical rest stop cabin where<br />
the young riders might stay overnight<br />
or change horses. I learned about the<br />
young men. The youngest was 11, and<br />
the oldest was 40; these riders braved<br />
hostile Indians, mountains, desert, and<br />
weather to deliver mail from St. Joe to<br />
California in 10 days. The exhibits are<br />
detailed and lifelike.<br />
alter Cronkite is the most modern-day resident of St. Joe honored with<br />
a memorial. It’s at Missouri Western State University in Spratt Hall and is<br />
free. The memorial covers his entire career and is beautifully done. There<br />
are videos you can watch of many of his historic broadcasts ranging from the<br />
President Kennedy assassination to the Beatles’ first American appearance.<br />
These are three towns you do not want to miss!<br />
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