though it couldn't be proven that alexander caused the flooding, we later confirmed that he had a reputation at holman. >> word had spread around and gotten back to me that andrew was actually probably one of their more violent and notorious inmates. >> when we finally met alexander in person, we discovered he once had a notorious reputation outside of prison as well. his crimes occurred when he and his countries were known as the i-10 bandits. >> we might strike in texas. then the next time they see us, we were in florida the next day. we never got off the highway. >> he estimates he and his cousin logged almost 60 robberies in six states. and the target was always the same. >> we were just robbing hotels. we weren't robbing nothing but hotels. we would try to go to hotels on the weekend before they go to the bank and make bank drops. now these days they got the credit cards and stuff. this is back in the '80s. more cash was being used than it is today. >> how much money did you make? >> a lot. we blew it as soon as we made it. i wasn't the type of robber where you might see where i was down and dirty or nothing like that. i wore nice clothes. i drove nice car

andrew jackson, first of all celebrated the fact that he had killed alexander hamilton. everybody in the west thought burr was a great man. and when burr talked about, it is hard to know exactly what he said, but when he talked about a possible independent future for the west, it was entirely consistent with american philosophy of politics, including that of thomas jefferson but even more importantly it was the almost inevitable outcome of geography because once you have crossed the mountains, the rivers all ran downstream and the rivers were the essence of commerce. they were the avenues of transport. and, you know, jefferson himself sometimes wondered whether louisiana's fate was with the united states. so burr was simply, i don't know, if he was articulating or was simply letting people articulate what they thought their future might be because if you lived in new orleans in 1805, it took forever to get to washington, or new york, and you could well ask yourselves, how can those people in the east govern us? that was part of what he was up to. would he have waged war