Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West

Jackson, Joe

ISBN 10: 0786708972 / ISBN 13: 9780786708970

Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001

About this Item

Type: Remainder First Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Eight pages of historic photographs. Clean and unmarked black and cream binding, no edgewear, tight & solid. Intact endbands. Internals quite clean and completely free from any markings. Unclipped glossy clean jacket is rubbed and has slight wear to spine head. In 1909 Frank Grigware was sentenced to life in Leavenworth, the first federal penitentiary, for a crime he did not commit. He escaped with five other convicts by hijacking a supply train and ramming the joint's west gate. He spent the next 24 years as America's most elusive fugitive. Four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Joe Jackson tells Grigware's story in the waning days of the Old West. 416 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.3 inches. 2001, Carrol & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, USA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786708972
• ISBN 13: 9780786708970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law, Courts, Justice, Police, Law Enforcement

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Synopsis

A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s.

Synopsis

An account of a twenty-four year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself.