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Late in their career, the James brothers encounter
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Following Jesse's murder, the Fords receive the promised acquittal and a portion of the reward money, but find themselves almost unanimously detested and ostracized by the
American public. The stories of their subsequent lives and deaths are recounted against the backdrop of their notoriety as
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faces increasing pressure from the authorities, he begins to suspect those around him of conspiring to betray him. Indeed, the Fords end up negotiating a deal with the governor of
Missouri to capture or kill Jesse in exchange for the offered reward and exoneration for their previous crimes.
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remarked the book contained "well-written, artful descriptions. . . yet also drawing away to show us the frame like an announcer's binding narration" and noted that "only occasionally can get tension into this documentary approach; and the zooms between close-up and voice-over soon become
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of the era. Based on extensive research into the many contemporary accounts of Jesse James' crimes and personal life, the novel weaves a third-person narrative of actual events with fictionalized imaginings of the lives of Jesse, his brother Frank, and their followers, including their
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488:Associates
397:22 January
366:17 October
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229:References
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