About
W.C. Jameson
W.C. Jameson is the award-winning author of more than 100 books, 1500 published articles and essays, 400 songs, and dozens of poems. He is the creator and author of the popular Beyond the Grave series including books on Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, Butch Cassidy, and Amelia Earhart. His Buried Treasures of America series numbers thirty-six books and counting. Jameson is the best selling treasure author in America, and his prominence as a professional fortune hunter has led to stints as a consultant for the Unsolved Mysteries television show, the Travel Channel, and a number of other television projects. He served as an advisor for the film National Treasure starring Nicolas Cage and appears in an interview on the DVD. His book, Treasure Hunter: A Memoir of Caches, Curses, and Deadly Confrontations was named Best Book of the Year (2011) by Indie Reader. Several of Jameson's books have been optioned for film, and his work has appeared in ten anthologies. A television personality, Jameson has had roles as advisor, narrator, interviewee, performer, and authority relative to a variety of topics on The History Channel, The Travel Channel, The Discovery Channel, The American Heroes Channel, The Westerns Channel, Ride TV, PBS, NPR, Nightline, and Coast to Coast, and more A number of the episodes appearing on the television programs Gunslingers, Legends and Lies, and Investigating History have been drawn from several of his books. In addition, two documentaries based on his publications have been produced and contracts for two more are forthcoming. A songwriter and musician, Jameson has recorded eight critically acclaimed CDs of original music. In 1999 he was named Songwriter of the Year by the Texas Folk Music Guild. He has contributed to the sound tracks for four feature films, two PBS documentaries, and one commercial short documentary. His music has been heard on NPR, and he wrote and performed in the musical, “Whatever Happened to the Outlaw, Jesse James?” Two songs written by Jameson have been included in America's Top 100 Western Songs list. and music videos featuring three of his songs have been produced. An actor, Jameson has also appeared in five films. When not working on a book, or a television episode, or involved in a treasure recovery operation, Jameson tours the country as a speaker, conducting writing workshops, and performing his music at folk festivals, concert halls, roadhouses, and on television. He lives in Llano, Texas. |
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Stept Studios
El Segundo, CA
presents
An American Legend
W. C. Jameson is a man who has led expeditions across the American West and into Mexico in search of lost mines and buried treasures. Filmmakers Mack Fisher and Taylor McIntosh fulfill a childhood fascination by meeting this real, live adventurer in the flesh. Here, the directorial duo explain Jameson’s hunt for hidden treasure, and open up about their playful daydreams of meeting a larger-than-life figure in W. C. Jameson:
As children, we often heard tall tales of explorers, hunters, and adventurers.
Their images existed only in our imagination. Sometimes we dreamt of them,
pretending to join these pioneers on expeditions. The idea of their wildness
faded as we grew older, the possibility of these larger than life characters
existing vanished. Years passed, and out of nowhere we heard about a man
who had spent his entire life searching, exploring, and hunting for treasure.
A man named W C. Jameson.
For us, Jameson personifies the end of a dying breed. He is a man who has
lived his life above the law and beyond the boundaries of society like so many
brave pioneers before him. Our film, “W. C. Jameson,” is a glimpse into the
mind of an American legend as he fulfills his last great quest and reflects on
his life as an outlaw.
El Segundo, CA
presents
An American Legend
W. C. Jameson is a man who has led expeditions across the American West and into Mexico in search of lost mines and buried treasures. Filmmakers Mack Fisher and Taylor McIntosh fulfill a childhood fascination by meeting this real, live adventurer in the flesh. Here, the directorial duo explain Jameson’s hunt for hidden treasure, and open up about their playful daydreams of meeting a larger-than-life figure in W. C. Jameson:
As children, we often heard tall tales of explorers, hunters, and adventurers.
Their images existed only in our imagination. Sometimes we dreamt of them,
pretending to join these pioneers on expeditions. The idea of their wildness
faded as we grew older, the possibility of these larger than life characters
existing vanished. Years passed, and out of nowhere we heard about a man
who had spent his entire life searching, exploring, and hunting for treasure.
A man named W C. Jameson.
For us, Jameson personifies the end of a dying breed. He is a man who has
lived his life above the law and beyond the boundaries of society like so many
brave pioneers before him. Our film, “W. C. Jameson,” is a glimpse into the
mind of an American legend as he fulfills his last great quest and reflects on
his life as an outlaw.