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"Traditionally, Jesse James has been portrayed as a Wild West bandit, a Robin Hood of sorts. But in this meticulously researched, vividly written account of his life, he emerges as far more complicated. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery atmosphere in bitterly divided Missouri, he began at sixteen to fight alongside some of the most savage Confederate guerrillas. When the Civil War ended, his violent path led him into the brutal conflicts of Reconstruction.".
"We follow James as he places himself squarely in the forefront of the former Confederates' bid to capture political power with his reckless daring, his visibility, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with a rising ex-Confederate editor, John Newman Edwards, who helped shape James's image for their common purpose. In uniting violence and the news media on behalf of a political cause, James was hardly the quaint figure of legend.
Rather, as his life played out across the racial divide, the rise of the Klan, and the expansion of the railroads, he was a forerunner of what we have come to call a terrorist."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Guerrillas, History, Juvenile literature, Kansas Civil War, 1861-1865, Missouri Civil War, 1861-1865, Outlaws, Robbers and outlaws, Underground movements, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, West (U.S.) Civil War, 1861-1865, James, Jesse, 1847-1882., Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography., Guerrillas -- Confederate States of America -- Biography., West (U.S.) -- Biography., Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements., James, jesse, 1847-1882, West (u.s.), biography, New York Times reviewed, Frontier and pioneer life, juvenile literature, West (u.s.), juvenile literature, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), West (u.s.), historyPeople
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1860-1890, Civil War, 1861-1865Showing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
2007, Penguin Random House
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Jesse James (The Chelsea House Library of Biography)
January 2004, Chelsea House Pub (T)
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Jesse James (Chelsea House Library of Biography)
July 1993, Chelsea House Publications
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-489) and index.
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A biography of the outlaw, focusing on his involvement in the Civil War and the formation of the James Gang.
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