Life And Adventures Of Frank And Jesse James Illumination Publishing Edition

Author : J. A. Dacus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 248 pages
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Release : 2017-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979897603

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Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James {Illumination Publishing Edition} by J. A. Dacus Pdf

Those who knew them during the days of their childhood and youth, differ widely in opinion concerning the character of the promise they gave of their future course in life. Some say they were "nice, well behaved boys," others that "they were about like other boys," and yet another class say that they were "bad boys, very bad boys from the beginning." There is no doubt that they were sometimes "a little wild," as their best friends admit. We have accounts of some of their childish actions which indicate that even in early life they manifested a decided inclination to be malicious, not to say heartless and cruel. The step-father of the boys seems to be a man of amiable disposition, and his government over the children was far from being after the order of the traditional step-father. The consequence was Frank and Jesse advanced to the years of maturity without any of those healthful, restraining influences which moralists assure us are essential to the proper development of the higher qualities of manhood. Be that as it may, we have been assured by persons of the highest respectability, who were acquainted with them long before the commencement of the war between the States, that "they were their own masters" at a very early age, save only when their strong-willed mother asserted her prerogative to dominate over them, which, by the way, she seldom did. Among the boys of the neighborhood they were not without friends. But among them, they were leaders. Aside from a willingness on the part of other boys to accept such leadership, the Jameses were exceedingly disagreeable, and generally attempted to enforce a due recognition of their superiority. Such were the great outlaws as boys.

Author : J. A. (Joseph A. ) Dacus
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294471821

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Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers by J. A. (Joseph A. ) Dacus Pdf

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Author : J. a. (Joseph a. ). Dacus
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1377134474

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Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers: The Noted Western Outlaws by J. a. (Joseph a. ). Dacus Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078879586

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : David B. Sachsman,S. Kittrell Rushing,Debra Reddin Van Tuyll
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1412836204

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The Civil War and the Press by David B. Sachsman,S. Kittrell Rushing,Debra Reddin Van Tuyll Pdf

The power of the American press to influence and even set the political agenda is commonly associated with the rise of such press barons as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the century. The latter even took credit for instigating the Spanish-American War. Their power, however, had deeper roots in the journalistic culture of the nineteenth century, particularly in the social and political conflicts that climaxed with the Civil War. Until now historians have paid little attention to the role of the press in defining and disseminating the conflicting views of the North and the South in the decades leading up to the Civil War. In The Civil War and the Press historians, political scientists, and scholars of journalism measure the influence of the press, explore its diversity, and profile the prominent editors and publishers of the day. The book is divided into three sections covering the role of the press in the prewar years, throughout the conflict itself, and during the Reconstruction period. Part 1, "Setting the Agenda for Secession and War," considers the rise of the consumer society and the journalistic readership, the changing nature of editorial standards and practice, the issues of abolitionism, secession, and armed resistence as reflected in Northern and Southern newspapers, the reporting on John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid, and the influence of journalism on the 1860 election results. Part 2, "In Time of War," includes discussions of journalistic images and ideas of womanhood in the context of war, the political orientation of the Jewish press, the rise of illustrated periodicals, and issues of censorship and opposition journalism. The chapters in Part 3, "Reconstructing a Nation," detail the infiltration of the former Confederacy by hundreds of federally subsidized Republican newspapers, editorial reactions to the developing issue of voting rights for freed slaves, and the journalistic mythologization of Jesse James as a resister of Reconstruction laws and conquering Unionists. In tracing the confluence of journalism and politics from its source, this groundbreaking volume opens a wide variety of perspectives on a crucial period in American history while raising questions that remain pertainent to contemporary tensions between press power and government power. The Civil War and the Press will be essential reading for historians, media studies specialists, political scientists, and readers interested in the Civil War period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031910

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THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY by Anonim Pdf

Author : Freda Cruse Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Outlaws
ISBN : 0984211128

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Frank and Jesse James by Freda Cruse Hardison Pdf

Never before told stories in the voice of older brother Frank of the early of the friends and family of Frank and Jesse James

Author : Jesse James
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499382952

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Jesse James, My Father: the First and Only True Story of His Adventures Ever Written by Jesse James Pdf

The Wild West has made legends out of many men after their deaths, but like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James was a celebrity during his life. However, while Hickok was (mostly) a lawman, Jesse James was and remains the most famous outlaw of the Wild West, with both his life of crime and his death remaining pop culture fixtures. James and his notorious older brother Frank were Confederate bushwhackers in the lawless region of Missouri during the Civil War. Despite being a teenager, James was severely wounded twice during the war, including being shot in the chest, but that would hardly slow him down after the war ended. As he recuperated, some of the men he was known to associate with during the war robbed Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, Missouri in 1866. While it's still unclear whether James was involved, he was soon conducting his own bank robberies. Young Jesse became notorious in 1869 after robbing the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, during which he murdered the bank cashier in the mistaken belief that the cashier was Union officer Samuel Cox. Despite being officially branded an outlaw, public resentment with government corruption and the banks helped turn James into a celebrated "Robin Hood" type of robber, despite the fact he never actually gave anyone money. Eventually James, his brother and their infamous gang became the most hunted outlaws in the country, but Jesse would famously be done in by the brother of his most trusted gang members. After Jesse moved in with the Ford brothers, Bob Ford began secretly negotiating turning in the famous outlaw to Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden. On April 3, 1882, as the gang prepared for another robber, Jesse was famously shot in the back of the head by Bob Ford as he stood on a chair fixing a painting. While conspiracy theories have continued to linger that somehow James was not killed on that day, the Ford brothers would celebrate their participation in his murder, Bob himself would be murdered a few years later, and Jesse James's legacy had been ensured.

Author : T J Stiles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407074719

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Jesse James by T J Stiles Pdf

At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps. In the bloodshed and bitterness that followed the South's surrender at Appomattox, Jesse and his fellow guerillas, with their gunfights and hold-ups, became part of the intensely brutal struggle by the White South against the racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction. In the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, T. J. Stiles paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath. With groundbreaking scholarship and dazzling reinterpretation, T. J. Stiles has refashioned one of the great legends of American history.

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2530 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117254248

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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115675790

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The Bradys and the Drug Slaves; Or, The Yellow Demons of Chinatown by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Edgar
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0484603396

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James Boys, Deeds of Daring by James Edgar Pdf

Excerpt from James Boys, Deeds of Daring: A Complete Record of Their Lives and Deaths, Narrating Many of Their Stirring Adventures, Which Have Only Recently Come to Light, and Which Have Never Appeared in Print Before An Old proverb says, Like father, like son, but history establishes the fact that most of the remark able men that the world has produced received their characters from their mother. Frank and Jesse James were no exception to the rule. In many respects Mrs. Zerelda Cole James was a remarkable woman, and it is probably as natural that she should have given birth to Frank and Jesse James as that Cornelia, the famous Roman matron, ' should have been the mother of the Gracchi. Mrs. James has been represented by certain self styled compilers of the lives and exploits of the James boys as being little short Of a brutal, uncivilized Amazon. Such misrepresentation is uncalled for as it is untrue. No one who knows anything about the personal life and character of the noted bandits' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030525997

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618142

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The Creation of the Cowboy Hero by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book’s main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

Author : Arley Kenneth Fadness
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467152365

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Capturing the Younger Brothers Gang in the Northern Plains: The Untold Story of Heroic Teen Asle Sorbel by Arley Kenneth Fadness Pdf

Capturing the Younger Brothers Gang in the Northern Plains: The Untold Story of Heroic Teen Asle Sorbel is a historic tale of vigilante valor Near sleepy Hanska slough, September 21, 1876, Norwegian teen Asle Sorbel made a daring "Paul Revere ride" into Madelia, Minnesota. His efforts, and those of the Madelia Magnificent Seven, led to the capture of the Younger Brothers of the Jesse James-Younger Gang. The gang's botched Northfield bank raid and infamous Madelia Shoot Out were well reported. But, Alse's story was lost to history. Friends of the outlaws planned reprisals. Alse changed his name, his persona and his location. He kept his mount shut. In 1883, he quietly reestablished himself in Dakota Territory. As years passed, he became the premier horse doctor in the Webster, South Dakota area, all the while haunted by vigilant fear. Author Arley K. Fadness uncovers the lost secrets and remarkable life of valiant Asle Oscar Sobel.