T. J. Stiles - Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
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Jesse James
Winner of the Ambassador Book Award
Elegantly rendered and compelling.
Jay Winik, The Washington Post Book World
Stiles has combed a wealth of contemporary sources and imbues this story with the drama it deserves.
Eric Foner, Los Angeles Times
Carries the reader scrupulously through Jamess violent, violent life. When Stiles, in his subtitle, calls Jesse James the last rebel of the Civil War, he correctly defines the theme that ruled Jesses life.
Larry McMurtry, The New Republic
Wonderful. An important new biography.
John Mack Faragher, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
[A] bold, myth-bashing account of the brutal life and times of the outlaw-icon.
The Boston Globe
A fascinating challenge to old legends.
The Dallas Morning News
A dazzling work of American history. James emerges, stripped of his Robin Hood folk mythology, as a more complex and pivotal figure than earlier histories have allowed.
The Sunday Times (London)
Arresting and powerful.
The Richmond-Times Dispatch
This gripping biography of one of the most famous American outlaws clarifies the development of modern violence and proves that the simplistic Jesse James of western movies falls far short of the historical mark.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Perhaps the finest book ever written about this American legend.
Salon
The book is quite simply outstanding. [Stiles is] a writer whose allegiance is not with the easy and obvious but with the subtle and defiantly humane.
The Guardian
As gracefully written as a novel, and convincingly argued throughout, this is biography at its finest.
BookPage
Stiles spent four years examining Jamess deadliest weapon: his politics. James emerges as no mere robber, but as a proslavery terrorist who remains wildly misunderstood.
Time Out
In hard-eyed, exhilaratingly physical language T. J. Stiles takes us beyond the usual interpretation of the outlaws notorious life and into a far more challenging understanding of the man.
The Bloomsbury Review
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 2003
Copyright 2002 by T. J. Stiles
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.
Vintage and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Stiles, T. J.
Jesse James : last rebel of the Civil War / T. J. Stiles
p. cm.
1. James, Jesse, 18471882. 2. OutlawsWest (U.S.)Biography. 3. West (U.S.)Biography. 4. GuerrillasConfederate States of AmericaBiography. 5. MissouriHistoryCivil War, 18611865Underground movements. 6. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Underground movements. I. Title.
F594.J27S76 2002
364.1552092dc21
[B]
2002025493
eISBN: 978-0-307-77337-1
Author photograph Brice Hammack
Maps by David Lindroth, Inc.
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To Nadine, for
everything
I consider Jesse James the worst man, without any exception, in America. He is utterly devoid of fear, and has no more compunction about cold blooded murder than he has about eating his breakfast.
Robert A. Pinkerton,
Richmond Democrat
November 20, 1879
[Jesse James] laughed and remarked that he might have to go under eventually, but before he did he would shake up the country.
Robert Ford,
St. Louis Republican
April 7, 1882
Youre going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Philip Caputo,
A Rumor of War
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Robert James
Zerelda Samuel
The James-Samuel farm
A Missouri River steamboat
The St. Louis waterfront
General Sterling Price
General Order No. 11
Escape to freedom
Three Missouri guerrillas
Jesse James as a bushwhacker
The James brothers and their leader
William Bloody Bill Anderson
Major A. V. E. Johnston
General Joseph O. Shelby
Major John N. Edwards
Bloody Bill Anderson in death
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The Radical Triumph: A tribute to emancipation in Missouri
The Origins of Radical Reconstruction: President Johnson as Iago
The Confederate Reaction: The Ku Klux Klan
President Ulysses S. Grant
A locomotive, coal tender, and baggage car
Governor Thomas C. Fletcher
Governor Silas Woodson
Governor Charles H. Hardin
Allan Pinkerton
Jesse James as an adult
Zee Mimms James
Adelbert Ames
Northfield, Minnesota
The Scriver block
Interior of the First National Bank
The bandit casualties
Governor Thomas T. Crittenden
Governor Crittendens reward proclamation
Scene of the assassination
Jesse James in death
Maps
The rumor rolled through the town of St. Joseph, Missouri, like floodwaters, reaching the reporters ears around ten oclock on the morning of April 3, 1882. He grabbed his notebook and ran onto the street, which was already saturated with the news, the sidewalks alive with disbelieving chatter. Within a few minutes, he joined a river of people flowing uphill to the storys source: a modest house on the corner of Thirteenth and Lafayette Streets, a frame building, a story and a half high, he wrote, in a little grove of fruit trees. He pushed his way through the crowd of gawkers and moved inside.
He stepped straight into a strange and dreamlike scene: a little girla mere toddlerand a seven-year-old boy, standing silent and afraid in the kitchen; their slender, trembling mother, at once hateful, angry, and grieving, words tumbling out of her mouth in a blend of pleas and screams; and teeming strangers, reporters and onlookers, who crowded into her home. Next to the door in the front room was the center of this vortex: a man, lying upon the floor cold in death, the reporter wrote, blood oozing from his wounds.
The wails, the babble of words, the murmuring of the crowd suddenly stopped as two young men appeared. They stepped past the body, approached a town marshal who stood close by, and offered to surrender. They had killed this man, one of them declared, and now they expected their reward. The lawman looked at them in astonishment. My God, he said, do you mean to tell us that this is Jesse James?
Yes, the pair replied in unison.
Those who were standing near, the reporter wrote, drew in their breaths in silence at the thought of being so near Jesse James, even if he was dead.
Here in this little house, in this otherwise commonplace domestic setting, one of the great mysteries of the age had appeared incarnate. Every one of the onlookers knew the name
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