Missing scenes?

I attended the official cast-and-crew premiere of the first answer print of this film at The Burbank Studios. I've only noticed two minor differences between the version I saw on that memorable night and the cut that was eventually released to theaters. They were as follows:

1. Originally, the film's first image was a stark, overcast shot of the James gang (probably just the actors' stunt doubles) riding horses wildly over a camera buried in the ground. This was replaced by the pleasant, slow-motion riding sequences which now comprise the background of the credits.

2. There was an additional brief scene in which Frank James (Stacy Keach) approaches and charms his future wife (Shelby Leverington). The deletion of this scene makes it seem much too abrupt when Frank is suddenly shown lying in bed with her, after little more than admiring her from across the room in their only previous scene together.

BTW, I sure don't envy the guy who had to write the novelization. There were a skidzillion drafts of the script and it was constantly being rewritten -- mostly by Walter Hill, uncredited -- on the set during the filming. He once even borrowed a Bic pen from me during a lunch break and completely overhauled the dialog for the scene they started shooting 20 minutes later. A lot of things were later turned completely around during post-production, such as the entire funeral of Jesse James being re-edited so it became the farmer McCorkindale's funeral (which is why Jesse's wife is standing off to the side of the casket and, if you look closely in the long shot, you can see that "McCorkindale's" corpse has mysteriously grown a full beard like Jesse).