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Synopsis
Jesse and Frank James were household names long before images of America's most wanted were televised. For several decades after the Civil War, they were hunted by hundreds who supposed them to be involved in every bank and train robbery in the Midwest. Trained as guerrilla fighters in the border conflict between Kansas and Missouri, they joined with the Younger brothers in February 1866 to rob a bank in Liberty, Missouri. That was the beginning of a criminal confederation that seemed beyond the reach of the law until the Northfield, Minnesota, raid killed three of them and sent the James brothers into hiding. But they were the objects of posted rewards that proved too tempting in Jesse's case: in 1882 he was shot in the back by Robert Ford of his own gang.
The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, by Robertus Love, a newspaperman who knew Frank James, is a pioneering work that plumbs the personalities of the outlaws, looks at their domestic lives, cites many stories about them, and attempts to separate fact from legend in tracking their violent operations.
Michael Fellman assesses Love's 1926 book in his introduction to this Bison Books edition.
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Review
"The first attempt at a factual study . . . [and] a significant addition to the literature of the James band."―William A. Settle Jr., Jesse James Was His Name Author: William A. Settle Jr.
"Love tells the story of James in the style of a good reporter, with much fondness for convincing detail."―New York Times Source: New York Times
"Packed with excitement."―Literary Review Source: Literary Review
From the Author
Michael Fellman is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the Civil War (1989).
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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0803279329
- ISBN 13 9780803279322
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages446
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