. >> my name is sandy mills, and i inherited a very old picture from my grandmother, isabelle. e said it was the infamous outlaw, jesse james. i believed it, but it didn't seem like anybody else really did. >> sandy. >> hi. >> i'm jamie. so nice to meet you, and i can't wait to hear your story. sandy explains that her roots go back to missouri, where her grandmother, isabelle, shared with her the family legend -- that their forebears occasionally aided jesse james. the outlaw jesse james. >> yes, ma'am. she would tell me the stories as i was growing up, how they would give them horses and food and shelter, just protect them. >> to prove it, grandma isabelle shows sandy this picture, known as a tintype. it's an early form of photography, using a chemical emulsion to transfer a direct positive image to a small metal plate. so each tin is unique, a camera original. when do you first learn about it? >> i was about 5 years old, and she would take out the tin and she would show it to me. >> who's in the picture exactly? >> it's jesse james and bob ford. he was the one that took his li