Books:

Bruns, Roger A. Jesse James: Legendary Outlaw. Springfield, N.J.Enslow Publishers, Inc, 1998.

Bruns, Roger A. The Bandit Kings: From Jesse James to Pretty Boy Floyd. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1995.

Fisher, Leonard Everett The Railroads. New York: Holiday House, 1979.

Glass, Andrew. Bad Guys true stories of legendary gunslingers, sidewinders, fourflushers, drygulchers, bushwackers, freebooters, and downright bad guys and gals of the Wild West.
New York: Double Day Books for Young Readers, 1998.

Green, Carl R. and William R. Sanford. Outlaws and Lawmen of the Wild West: Butch Cassidy. Hillside, N.J:Enslow publishers, Inc., 1995.

Green, Carl R. and William R. Sanford. Outlaws and Lawmen of the Wild West: Jesse
James. Springfield, N.J.:Enslow Publishers, Inc. 1992.

Grimshaw, Caroline. Connections! Money. Chicago: World Book Inc., 1997.

Herda, D.J. Outlaws of the American West. Brookfield, CT.:Millbrook Pres. 1995.

Lewis, Brenda Ralph. Coins and Currency. New York: Random House. 1993.

Spies, Karen Bomemann. Our Money. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1992.

Stewart, Gail B. Where Lies Butch Cassidy?. New York: Crestwood House New York, 1992.

Surge, Frank. Western Outlaws. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1969.

Unknown. Lawmen & Outlaws. Salt Lake City: Great Mountain West 1997.

Encyclopedia articles:

Faulk, Odie B. "Jesse James." World Book Encyclopedia. World Book Inc. Scott Fetzer Co. USA, 1987, 78.

“1933 Double Eagle.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 17 November 2004. 3 February 2005. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Double_Eagle>.

“American Gold Coins.” Gold Coin Shop. 18 January 2005. http://www.goldcoinshop.com/american_gold_coins.html#gold_eagle.

City of Round Rock Planning and Community Development. “The Story of Sam Bass.” 7 January 1988. 1 January 2005<http://www.ci.round-rock.tx.us/panning/rrcollection/mainstreet/sambass>.

CoinFacts.com: Your Online Reference for U.S. Coins. 21 January 2005. <www.coinfacts.com>.

“Coin of the Month: 1876 Twenty-Cent Coin.” United States Mint H.I.P Pocket Change: It’s History in Your Pocket!. 21 February 2005. <www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?fileContents=coinNews/cotm/2003/05.cfm>.

“Coin of the Month:1866 Shield Type Nickel Five-Cent Coin.” United States Mint H.I.P Pocket Change: It’s History in Your Pocket!. 21 February 2005.
<www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?fileContents=coinNews/cotm/2002/05.cfm>.

“Colorado History: The Stagecoach Robbery Mystery.” FourteenerNet: A Guilde to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Heartland. 30 November 2004. <http://www.vtinet.com/14ernet/history/stage.htm>.

Currency Gallery Research Foundation, The. “The Gold Reserve Act of 1933.” The Currency Gallery. 3 February 2005. <www.currencygallery.org/small/1933goldorder.htm>.

Currency Gallery Research Foundation, The. “Silver Certificates.” The Currency Gallery. 22 February 2005. <http://www.currencygallery.org/large/lsc.htm>.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. “Fractional Currency and Other Paper Money Experiments.” American Currency Exhibit. 22 February 2005. <http://www.frbsf.org/currency/civilwar/history/text2.html>.

“Five-Cent Coin (Nickel).” United States Mint H.I.P Pocket Change: It’s History in Your Pocket!. 21 February 2005. <http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?fileContents=coinNews/circulatingCoins/05centCoin.cfm>.

Gibson, Elizabeth. “Kid Curry, the Wildest of the Bunch.” AOL Hometown. Spring 1999. WOLA Journal: Official Publication of the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association, Inc. Hamilton, Montana. 8 February 2005. <http://hometown.aol.com/Gibson0817.KidCurry.htm>.

"History of American Coins. Heritage Coins. www.coinsite.com. 27 February 2005. <http://www.coinsite.com/>.

"Indian Head Liberty Three Dollar Pieces 1854-1889. Coin Guide" Rare Coin and News Articles. www.coinresource.com. 27 March 2005. <http://www.coinresource.com/guide/photograde/pg_$3IndianHead3Dollar.htm>.

“Joaquin Murieta.” The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited. 10 March 2005. < http://www.malakoff.com/grpjomu.htm>.

“National Bank Notes.” Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 22 February 2005.
<http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/5/44/112>.

"Outlaws and Lawmen of the West.” Mr. Rainwater’s Western Outlaws and Lawmen Research Project. 30 November 2004. <http://mse.aesd.k12.ca.us/library/rainwaterwest.html >.

Oydegaard, Floyd Douglass Peterson “The Story of Charles E. Boles aka Black Bart.” Spotted Dog Ranch: Shadows of the Past. 8 February 2005. <http://www.sptddog.com/sotp/bbpo8.html>.

Pfiester, Ron. “Types of U.S. Currency.” Ron’s Currency, Stocks & Bonds. 2001. 22 February 2005. <http://www.ronscurrency.com/rctype.htm.>

Pike, John “Fort Knox Bullion Depository.” GlobalSecurity.org. 3 March 2002. 1 March 2005. <www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-knox-depository.htm>.

“Railroad Train Robbers.” www.linecamp.com. 7 February 2005. <http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/define_the_west/train_robbers/train_robbers.html>.

Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. “Reduce Your Risk.” crimeprevention.Rutgers.edu. 1 March 2005. <http://crimeprevention.rutgers.edu/crime/robbery/cash%20transfer/reducerisk.htm>.

“Sam Bass.” April 28, 2000. 8 December 2004. <http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/Gibson0817/bass.htm>.

“Sam Bass” Part of the Outlaw Series. FrontierTimes.com. 8 December 2004. <www.frontiertimes.com/outlaws/bass.html>.

Sampson, James and Lucille. “Jesse James and the Rock Island Lines.” Simpson College.edu. February 1997. 18 January 2005. <www.simpson.edu/~RITS/histories/jjstory/JJ.html>.

Smithsonian Institution. “The Double Eagle: The History of the $20 United States Gold Coin 1849-1933.” National Museum of American History. 2005. 18 January 2005. <http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/doubleea/doubleea.htm>.

Texas State Library and Archives Commission. “Reward: Sam Bass and Other Outlaws.” Archives and Manuscripts. 28 October 2004. 16 December 2004.
<http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/law/wanted-outlaws-01.html>.

“Stagecoach Etiquette.” CowPokin’Fun-Old West. 18 January 2005. <http://www.geocities.com/~cowpokinfun/stage.htm>.

U.S. Department of the Treasury. “Histsory of Regular Issue United States Coin Denominations.” Fun Facts About the United States Mint. 1 March 2005. <http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?action=fun_facts1>.

Music: "Montana Rag" composed by Dennis Alexander. Played by team member Kaelynn and her father, Garth.

Image credits

We acknowledge the following for permission to use photo images:

Photographs and images related to Sam Bass

http://members.fortunecity.com/tokenguy/tokentales/page50.htm (Jerry Adams)

http://www.austinexplorer.com/Cemeteries/WilliamsonCounty/RoundRockCemetery/ (Robert Barron)

http://www.forttumbleweed.com/historybass.html (Len Kubiak)

Photographs and images related to Black Bart

www.blackbart.com (webmaster)

Photographs and images related to Jesse James

http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/jessepic.htm (Frank Younger, Aurora Astronomical Services)

Photographs related to Butch Cassidy and Kid Curry

www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com (images in the public domain)

www.linecamp.com (webmaster, Ron)

http://www.so-utah.com/no89/butch/homepage.html (Max Bertola)

http://www.bearlake.org/butch (Steve Allred)

Paper money images

All images of paper money courtesy of The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html (Andrea Davis, Public Affairs Specialist)

Coin images:

Heritage Galleries
www.HeritageGalleries.com
http://www.heritagecoins.com/features/vcc.php (Matt Polakoff, eCommerce Specialist)

Professional Coin Grading Service
www.pcgs.com (Sonia Luque, Customer Service)

Images related to Train Robbery
http://www.mojavemuleskinners.com/shindigs/vctrainrobbery.html (Cutter)

www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com (images in the public domain)

Images related to Stagecoach Robbery
Twin Falls Public Library
http://www.twinfallspubliclibrary.org/photo.html (Barbara, Reference Department)

Special thanks to:

We would like to give a HUGE thank you to Ms. Turley for teaching us how to use Fireworks and Dreamweaver so that we could make our website. She stayed after school and came in over her vacation days so that our webiste could be possible. Thank you Ms. Turley!

Debbie at Central Bank and Trust Co. for a tour of the bank and information about how banks keep money safe today.

Bob Campbell and the staff of “All About Coins” for taking time to show us their vast collection of coins, and for allowing us to take photographs of gold nuggets and other coins.

D. Chris Robertson, Sabol and Rice, Incorporated who shared his vast knowledge of coins with us and helped us create size comparisons.

Cutter and Windy Bill from Mojavemuleskinners.com who helped us with information about the Virginia and Truckee railroad.

John Averett from our local Public Library for helping us access the Pioneeronline magazine database.

Andrea Davis of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank who arranged for us to copy images of paper money.

Heritage Galleries for allowing us to copy images of coins from their “virtual coin collection”

PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service) for providing us with additional images of antique coins.