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Book The James Boys in Missouri

Download or read book The James Boys in Missouri written by N. Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The James Boys in Missouri

Download or read book The James Boys in Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quantrell s Old Guard  Or  The James Boys in Missouri

Download or read book Quantrell s Old Guard Or The James Boys in Missouri written by D. W. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesse James Was His Name

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  • Author : William A. Settle
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803258600
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Jesse James Was His Name written by William A. Settle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesse James," said Carl Sandburg, "is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this country what Robin Hood or Dick Turpin is to England, whose exploits are so close to the mythical and apocryphal." For this definitive study no significant source of information concerning Jesse James and his brother Frank has been neglected, and from it emerges resolution of the debated point: "Were the Jameses common criminals or gallant Robin Hoods?"

Book The James Boys

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The James Boys written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery

Download or read book Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery written by Beights, Ronald H. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The train robbery by the James-Younger gang in 1874 at Gads Hill, Missouri, was a big news item of the day. Americannewspapers from as far away as New York and Boston carried the story, and journalists in St. Louis, Chicago, and even European cities wrote scathing editorials about the crime. In time, the excitement subsided, but the raid at Gads Hill had a lasting effect on the lives of the James and Younger brothers. Dramatic events that occurred during the robbery, retreat, and pursuit brought the bandits world-wide attention and became the source for much of the Jesse James legend we know today. Here, told largely by trainmen, passengers, farmers, detectives, outlaws, news reporters, and others who were directly or indirectly involved with thecrime, is a true, documented account of Frank and Jesse James, the Younger brothers, and Missouri�s first train robbery. Many of the photographs included have never been published.

Book James Boys Deeds of Daring

Download or read book James Boys Deeds of Daring written by James Edgar and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesse James Was His Name

Download or read book Jesse James Was His Name written by William A. Settle and published by . This book was released on 1966-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact and fiction concerning the careers of the notorious James brothers of Missouri.

Book The James Boys

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  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release : 2018-02-13
  • ISBN : 1612325734
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The James Boys written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GUNSMITH'S 200TH ADVENTURE.. A fight for justice, for revenge, for Frank and Jesse James! Nothing makes the Gunsmith madder than a couple of two-bit backshooters. Especially when they shoot down Clint's longtime friend, the famed outlaw Jesse James. This cowardly killing has high connections—sanctioned by the sheriff—and possibly by the governor himself. Now Clint's got to protect Jesse's new widow and children, and keep hotheaded Frank James from getting himself killed too. For it takes a legend like the Gunsmith to avenge the West's most legendary outlaw!

Book The James Boys

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  • Author : Richard Liebmann-Smith
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2008-06-17
  • ISBN : 1588366774
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The James Boys written by Richard Liebmann-Smith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and strikingly original new voice in fiction reinvents the historical novel–along with American history itself–in this wry “what if?” that merges and mashes up four of our most famous and infamous national icons. Historian Otis Pease once remarked that the story of nineteenth-century America could be encompassed in the lives of the two sets of James brothers–William and Henry in the East, Frank and Jesse in the West. The James Boys goes further by making all four of them the fruit of the same family tree and showing how it shakes out. In 1876, the No. 4 Missouri Pacific Express pulls out of Kansas City for Saint Louis. Among those on board is Henry James, the erudite and esteemed novelist and brother of the brilliant philosopher William James. Trying his hand at travel writing, Henry is beset, as ever, by hypochondria–in the form, this case, of dire digestive woes. Suddenly, the train is stopped and robbed–and not by just any bandits but by the legendary James Gang. Taken hostage by the brigands, Henry realizes to his unspeakable horror that Jesse and Frank are in fact “Rob” and “Wilky,” his long-lost brothers, who had disappeared during the Civil War and been presumed dead for more than a decade. From there the ride only gets wilder, careening through underbrush and ivory towers, throwing together America’s greatest intellectuals and most notorious outlaws in a saga of six-guns and sherry that is peopled by a fascinating roster of passengers, both historical and imagined. Most prominent among them are Elena Hite, a feisty young feminist deeply aroused by the down-and-dirty charisma of the criminal Jesse; Alice Gibbens, the eminently sensible schoolteacher engaged to the sexually inexperienced William, who tempts him to stay put rather than joining Henry out West; and William Pinkerton, the renowned detective hot on all of their trails–especially Elena’s. Based on and incorporating actual events, The James Boys is a through-the-looking-glass romp that boldly blends both sides of the American character–the brilliant and the barbaric–in one unforgettable family and one seriously entertaining story.

Book Jesse James was My Neighbor

Download or read book Jesse James was My Neighbor written by Homer Croy and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1883, the year after Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford and buried in his mother’s backyard, Homer Croy grew up near the James farm in northwest Missouri. He talked with many old-timers who knew Jesse and Frank James and their remarkable mother, Zerelda. Eyewitness accounts (sometimes humorous) and Croy’s familiarity with the milieu that produced the outlaw brothers enrich Jesse James Was My Neighbor. Jesse read the Bible before he went out to rob a bank or train (Frank preferred Shakespeare), and he was honest except for those raids, according to Croy. The author follows the James boys, documenting their criminal activities and their human side while sorting out the growing legend. He adds a necrology of the twenty-eight bandits who rode with the James gang at one time or another.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The James Boys and Pinkerton

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  • Author : D. Stevens
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-05-05
  • ISBN : 9781508978329
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The James Boys and Pinkerton written by D. Stevens and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you killed him? "Well, I hope so." Such was another day at the office for outlaws Frank and Jesse James, whether escaping a bar full of hostile villains, robbing a train or conning their nemesis the great detective Allen Pinkerton. When the Chicago lawman unwittingly hires the pair the boys from Missouri become official detectives as part of their mad scheme to lure Pinkerton west and roast him alive!

Book Gunfighter Nation

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  • Author : Richard Slotkin
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780806130316
  • Pages : 868 pages

Download or read book Gunfighter Nation written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

Book Jesse James

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  • Author : Adam Woog
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-01-07
  • ISBN : 1628738510
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Jesse James written by Adam Woog and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notorious for his widely publicized bank and train robberies, Jesse James will forever be known as the American outlaw and gang leader. James began his infamous career during the Civil War, as part of a group of Confederate guerrilla fighters in his native state of Missouri. But as the war ended, James turned his life toward crime and soon became a man on the run from the law. Joined by his older brother, Frank, and another set of brothers, James became one of the leaders of the famous James-Younger gang. As a group, these bandits ruled the West, terrorizing banks, stagecoaches, and railroads. Although James was feverishly hunted, he was never taken prisoner by US law enforcement. Instead, his career as an American outlaw was cut short when he was betrayed and murdered by a member of his own gang: Robert Ford. Already a celebrity when he was alive, Jesse James became a legend after his unforeseen death. With exciting text, vivid photos, and historical relics, Jesse James, part of the Wild West for Kids series, teaches kids why this one outlaw still fascinates people more than a century later!

Book Shot All to Hell

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  • Author : Mark Lee Gardner
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 006224888X
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Shot All to Hell written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West’s most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield’s First National Bank and back out on the streets to square off with heroic citizens who risked their lives to defend justice in Minnesota. With compelling details that chronicle the two-week chase that followed—the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody final shootout on the Watonwan River, Shot All to Hell is a galloping true tale of frontier justice from the author of To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Lee Gardner.