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Foreword Harold Dellinger xiii
Jesse James was His Name
Strenuous Americans R. F. Dibble, 1925 4
Jesse James: My Father Jesse James Jr., 1899 8
The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas by One Who Rode with Them: A True but Terrible Tale of Outlawry Jim Cummins, 1903 11
Jesse James Was His Name: or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri. William A. Settle Jr., 1966 15
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War T.J. Stiles, 2002 19
A Terrible Quintette John Newman Edwards, 1873 27
Rebel Gun Arthur Steur, 1956 40
The Jesse James Poems: "Folk Tale" Paulette Jiles, 1988 49
Who had Killed Many Men
Under the Black Flag Captain Kit Dalton, a Confederate Soldier, 1914 56
Jesse James Was My Neighbor Homer Croy, 1949 59
Wanted! "Jesse James: Robin Hood" Arthur Winfield Knight, 1988 63
Outlaws of the Border: A Complete and Authentic History of the Lives of Frank and Jesse James, the Younger Brothers, and Their Robber Companions, Including Quantrell and His Noted Guerillas, the Greatest Bandits theWorld Has Ever Known Jay Donald, 1882 65
The Life, Times and Treacherous Death of Jesse James Frank Triplett, 1882 68
Speeches and Writings of Wm. H. Wallace William H. Wallace, 1914 78
Collected Poems: "The Perils" Max Douglas, 1978 80
Frank and Jesse James: The Story behind the Legend Ted P. Yeatman, 2000 81
The Jesse James Northfield Raid: Confessions of the Ninth Man John Koblas, 1999 90
Speeches and Writings of Wm. H. Wallace William H. Wallace, 1914 117
Ozark Folksongs Vance Randolph, 1980 120
Frontier Dust John Lord, 1926 125
The Jesse James Poems: "Jesse Is Thrown Out of the New Hope Baptist Church" Paulette Jiles, 1988 130
A Frontier Doctor Henry F. Hoyt, 1928 132
The Romance of a Western Boy: The Story of Corse Payton Gertrude Andrews, 1901 135
The James Boys: A Thrilling Story of the Adventures and Exploits of Frank and Jesse James$dAnonymous, circa 1882 139
And Laid Poor Jesse in His Grave
Jesse James Was His Name: Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri William A. Settle Jr., 1966 146
The Secret Life of Jesse James Arthur Winfield Kight, 1996 153
Good Bye, Jesse!$dKansas City Daily Journal, 1882 162
Collected Poems: "Coroner's Inquest Resumed" Max Douglas, 1978 176
Adventures of a Tramp Printer John Edward Hicks, 1950 179
Biography, Memoirs, Reminiscences and Recollections John N. Edwards, 1889 182
Collected Poems: "The Personal Property Of" Max Douglas, 1978 186
Message of Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden to the Thirty-Second General Assembly of the State of Missouri, at the Regular Session, Commencing Jan. 3, 1883 Governor Thomas T. Crittenden, 1883 188
Singing Rawhide: A Book of Western Ballads Harold Hersey 1926 194
The Rise and Fall of Jesse James Robertus Love, 1940 197
"Jesse James as Robin Hood" Sam Sackett, 1980 205
Collected Poems: "The True Story of the Death of Charlie Ford" Max Douglas, 1978 213
Speeches and Writings of Wm. H. Wallace William H. Wallace, 1914 214
Wanted! "Zerelda James: At Jesse's Grave" Arthur Winfield Knight, 1988 227
Missouri Bittersweet MacKinlay Kantor, 1969 229
The Jesse James Poems: "The Last Poem in the Series" Paulette Jiles, 1988 239
A Jesse James time line, including principal crimes attributed to the James-Younger Gang 241
Jesse James as he has appeared in movies and on television 249
Known and suspected members of the James-Younger Gang 251
Permissions Acknowledgments 253
About the Editor 258
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reviewed Jesse James: The Best Writings on the Notorious Outlaw and His Gang on September 18, 2012
Jesse James: The Best Writings on the Notorious Outlaw and His Gang
Some amateur critics complain that this isn't a comprehensive treatment, but ultimately that's a complaint rooted in laziness. If you want a fuller coverage of Lee's life's events, most of the relevant materials are readily available. Blount focuses on the hardest and most speculative component, which is what Lee thought and felt. Lee wrote little of consequence or substance, published no postbellum memoir. He took over a quiet college that had been sacked by Union soldiers and spent his last days rebuilding in a quiet corner of his beloved Virginia.
We must, therefore, speculate to some degree about his character and motives. This effort has been hampered by partisans for over a century--Confederacy sympathizers who want to canonize him, and (mostly) northern academics who seek to demonize him.
The service Blount renders then, is to bring compassion and empathy to his subject. Lee was a man deeply flawed in some respects, and emotionally distant, but also committed to a code of honor that we can scarcely recall now, and which we therefore struggle to understand. Blount tries to give us some of that understanding. And certainly some of his speculations--especially the Freud-besotted ones--are probably errant, but he has the intellectual honesty to acknowledge up front that he may well be wrong.
What we have, then, is an easily read, thoughtful, and--in light of a modern insistence that the Civil War was simply about slavery--courageous point of view. Professional historians, many of whom do more to muddy the waters with thinner speculations rooted in denser thickets of verbiage, should take note.
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