He met what was perhaps the most fitting end...

Jesse James himself was an unarmed man when he was shot in the back.
His story remains one of America's most cherished myths and one of its most wrong-headed. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE looks at the life and times, and the legend of Jesse James, as well as the woman Will Rogers described as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced." Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, yet she was a Quaker. This film is the story of five-foot-tall sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who pulled herself out of the depths of poverty to become known the world over as a symbol of the Wild West...Back to back stories from American Experience...7 & 8 pm

Antiques Roadshow goes to Houston...

for a tour of the extraordinary museum and gardens that once were home to famed philanthropist and antiques collector Ima Hogg. Modern-day collectors arrive at the Reliant Center with everything from an early 19th-century box desk made by a renowned supplier to the British royal family, to a 1959 replica of artist Edith Parson's early 19th-century Turtle Baby bronze sculpture, valued at $35,000 to $40,000...8pm

Then Secrets of the Dead investigates the disappearance of the Minoans...the first Europeans to use writing, becoming the setting for famous Greek myths about Theseus, Icarus and the Minotaur. 5000 years ago the Minoans were wiped from the pages of history. Was it from a massive volcano that buried them in ash or Greek invaders who conquered and killed them? Drawing from the archaeological records, new revelations about Minoan language and religion, and shocking new geological discoveries, the film connects fact with fiction, and reveals the truth behind the reign and fall of the great Minoan civilization...9pm

How the West Was Won in an afternoon...

Tony Bennett sings tonight with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga on Great Performances...8pm

One of the great architects of our time is examined in "Architect Robert A.M. Stern: Presence of the Past"...exploring how Stern bridges the very divide in modern architecture that he has to define -- that between the modernists and the traditionalists...tonight 9:30

On Sunday we catch up with the American Experience western series and the episode that was missed due to political programming last Tuesday...the episode focusing on Wyatt Earp and his emergence as a folk hero of the west...2pm

And don't miss more of of our western heritage with Annie Oakley and Quanah Parker following Wyatt Earp...3 & 4pm

All those triumphs have led to this...

She starred in the 1992 Olympics by winning more medals than any other US athlete, then in '96 she led the Magnificent Seven to the US Women's first ever team gold. Shannon became the first American gymnast to capture the gold on the balance beam, a law degree from Boston College, has her own radio show, a series of fitness books and some DVDs about how to stay fit during pregnancy...and now, as a wife and mother, Shannon Miller has taken on another challenge...fighting ovarian cancer. She talks with Ellen Robertson Green about her magnificent past and promising future this week on Face to Face...8pm

Should have been on Antiques Roadshow...

A striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress originally sold in 2007 for around $20,000...fast forward to the present and the portrait is now thought to be an undiscovered masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci worth - wait for it - more than $100 million. NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching "cold case" art mysteries as if they were crime scenes, and follows art sleuths as they deploy new techniques to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal market in stolen and fraudulent art...Nova...8pm

Just before the State of the Union...

Tonight we pre-empt American Masters with an encore episode of MOYERS & COMPANY, a new weekly hour of compelling and vital conversation about life and the state of American democracy, featuring some of the best thinkers of our time...7pm

...and no spittin' on the sidewalk...

Wyatt Earp's Tombstone was one tough town...and he's been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Kevin Costner, and Kurt Russell...as a man whose life is a lens on politics, justice and economic opportunity in the American frontier. As a young man, Wyatt Earp was a caricature of the Western lawman and gained notoriety in the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Tonight American Experience presents the real tale of Wyatt Earp...7pm