We're going to need a time machine because written history is FUBAR (literally). There are mountains of obviously phony BS laying around the mainstream, and regrettably I have 100% given up on any "real historian" ever noticing a bit of it.

Want to see a fun one? So, Jesse James was real person and a stone cold killer, right? Everybody knows that. Search for images of "jesse james outlaw" and look at the pic with the hat.

WTF? Is that a masculine woman, an effeminate cross-dressing man, or a tranny of some kind? A scoop neck sweater, baby soft hand, and a novelty hat from the party store? He doesn't look like any of his other pictures, but what does it matter anyway because on close inspection, they're all fake.

But the real takeaway is, how can this be the first you're hearing about this, from some rando in the innerwebz, instead of a historian of any stripe?