Jesse James Outdone, Or, The Missouri-Pacific Train Robbery
Author : W. B. Lawson
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : W. B. Lawson
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Beights, Ronald H.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455606658
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.
Author : William Ward
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : William Ward ((Author at Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland, Ohio)))
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1909
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : L. A. Little
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Kansas City (Mo.)
ISBN : 9780615597966
The killing of the outlaw Jesse James did little or nothing to put an end to train robberies in the state of Missouri. After a daring train robbery just outside of Kansas City in 1898 the usual suspects were suspected, and this time the son of Jesse James, known by all as Jesse James, Jr., was thrown into the mix. At the age of 23, the son of the bandit was a popular, handsome young man with a reputation as an honest, hard worker. Had young Jesse decided to follow in his infamous father's footsteps after all, or was this just another chance for a railroad detective and a prosecutor to "get themselves a James" in a county that had never successfully prosecuted a train robbery case in its history? Read the events of this true story as they unfolded, in the words of the reporters who covered the case and in the words of the James family, who thought the days of persecution on account of their name were long behind them. Includes a four-chapter excerpt from the book, "Jesse James, My Father," written by Jesse James, Jr.
Author : Phillip J. Morledge
Publisher : Phillip Morledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : History
ISBN : 095597657X
The story of Jesse James is shrouded in conflict. The conflict of the American Civil War and the conflict between those who saw a folk hero and those who saw a ruthless killer. This new collection brings together three classic biographies of the most infamous outlaw of the west.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 18??
Category : Silent films
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Brigands and robbers
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Author : Robertus Love
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803279322
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.