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LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
FRANK AND JESSE JAMES
THE
NOTED WESTERN OUTLAWS.
BY
HON. J. A. DACUS, Ph. D.
"Strange murmurs fill my tingling ears,
Bristles my hair, my sinews quake,
At this dread tale of reckless deeds."
ILLUSTRATED.
ST. LOUIS:
W. S. BRYAN, Publisher,
602 North Fourth Street.
San Francisco: A. L. BANCROFT & CO., 721 Market Street.
Indianapolis: FRED. L. HORTON & CO., 66 East Market Street.
Chicago: J. S. GOODMAN, 142 LaSalle Street.
1880.
Copyrighted, 1879, by W. S. BRYAN
JESSE JAMES.
FROM A LATE PHOTOGRAPH.
Copyrighted, 1880, by W. S. Bryan. The copyright lawswill be rigidly enforced against any person makingor disposing of copies of this picture.
Frank James. Jesse James.
Engraved from Photographs taken about the close of the war.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I.—The James Family.—The Rev. Robert James—His marriage—Removal to Missouri—His death in California, | 11 | -16 |
| CHAPTER II.—Frank and Jesse.—Their childhood and youth—They desire fire-arms—Youthful Nimrods—Pistol practice, | 17 | -24 |
| CHAPTER III.—In the Guerrilla Camp.—Frank joins Quantrell—Outrage on Dr. Samuels and Jesse—Mrs. Samuels and daughter, Susie James, arrested—Jesse as a courier for the Guerrillas, | 25 | -28 |
| CHAPTER IV.—Bloody War.—The hatreds of the border people—The partisan rangers—Frank James as a scout—Fight at Plattsburg, | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |