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Thurston James, Hollywood prop and mask maker
Jesse James, seventeen year old guerilla fighter
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The Jesse James Scrapbook
Everyone knows Jesse James was an outlaw. More important, he is a figure of the
Civil War and Reconstruction, who, in his own time, became a symbol of the defeated
and prostrate South —a hero to some, a villain to others.
Mr. Thurston James read my novel and said this about it:
"The Jesse James Scrapbook
is a different kind of book...
The cover says it is a novel, but it is not
—it is a Scrapbook!
Each chapter is a fragment of the James Boys life, told by a fictional
witness...
but it's stories are based on the traditional history of Jesse, Frank, Cole,
and other gang members."
Thurston, who passed away in 2005,
was related to Jesse's mother and was one of
the leading lights of
The James/Younger Gang,
a nonprofit organization of James
aficionados. I'm very proud that a person such as he liked my book.
I'm also very proud of an extensive review of The Jesse James Scrapbook done by
Mr. Frank Mundo, a Southern California writer and activist. If you'd like to read
that, please click here: Mundo Review.
If you'd like to buy a copy of The Jesse James Scrapbook, you can do so
by going to
Amazon.com or, if you don't like Amazon, you can order
it directly from the publisher, Hilliard and Harris.
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