Joseph Roper was interviewed several times in 1938 as a contribution to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone, it took many cylinders for him to narrate the events of his life connected with the Ian McCandles gang that had made him, at the age of seventeen, a legend not only in Idaho Territory but in the American West. He recalled, A lot of people go to those moving-picture shows...