Jesse James Was His Name: Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
Language: English
Published by University of Missouri Press, 1966
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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? William A. Settle Jr. is the author of The Dawning: A New Day in the Southwest.
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- Title
- Jesse James Was His Name: Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
- Author
- William A Settle
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826200524
- ISBN 13
- 9780826200525
William A. Settle, Jr. has, for a number of years, trailed the James brothers through the columns of old newspapers and the records of county courts. In his search for the facts concerning these men--heroes to some, criminals to others--he has critically examined the contemporary accounts of their activities and has interviewed men and women who could give eyewitness or close hearsay evidence of them. Employing the techniques of scholarly research, Professor Settle has winnowed the fact from the fiction to produce this study of these most notorious American bandits.
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About the Author
William A. Settle, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For twenty-five years, starting in 1946, he served as Head of the Department of History at the University of Tulsa. He is also the author of The Dawning: A New Day for the Southwest (The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 1975).
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