JESSE JAMES WAS HIS NAME Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Career of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri.

Softcover. 1st US Edn. thus. 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?" The author cuts through the tangle of folklore, identifies the demonstrable facts and labels the remainder as folklore and legend. Much of the book deals with the historical setting. No other bandits in American history match the record of Frank and Jesse James for evasion of the law. For 16yrs they went free and even then Jesse was shot in the back by a traitor in his own gang and Frank surrendered. Illus., Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 263pp. 8vo. softcover. Vg+