Reviews

"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. Good job, George!"

Thurston James
Editor, "The James-Younger Gang Journal"

"George Jansen has successfully executed a provocative and entertaining work of fiction worthy of the true legend himself."
Frank Mundo
Reviewer for "The Swamp" and "The San Diego Union-Tribune"
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"The research for The Jesse James Scrapbook is quite impressive. (George Jansen has) created a well-rounded look at Jesse's life and influence, humanized him, and shown the world around him. Fans of history and the Old West will love this story."
B. Lynn Goodwin
Reviewer for Dust Books and writersadvice.com
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"I was hooked from the beginning of The Jesse James Scrapbook. George Jansen took me to a place I didn't know I wanted to go to. But I got caught up in the multi-voiced narratives of people who lived in the second half of the 19th century and whose lives touched, or were touched, by the James brothers... Once I arrived in that time and place, I didn't want to leave. An amazing first novel."

A.J. Garrotto
author of A Love Forbidden, Finding Isabella and Circles of Stone