A Novel By George Jansen

Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger, William Clarke Quantrill, Billy the Kid, Robert Ford and Bat Masterson all come alive in The Jesse James Scrapbook, a collection of fact-based tales that weave a story of civil war, train robbery and murder. We hear from Jesse's first sweetheart, from the physician who treated his laudanum addiction, from a Pinkerton detective, from an outlaw turned informer and many others. They tell of their encounters with Jesse and of their own lives, too, and the Scrapbook ultimately becomes the story of America in mid-passage --her aristocrats and slaves, homesteaders and immigrants, prostitutes and thieves.

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