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　　In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new

understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has

often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this

ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the

bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated

and significant figure.

Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided

Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the

savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states.

After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery

and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless

daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the

sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the

forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political

power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic

adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he

resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure

ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in

many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.

List of" Illustrations

List of Maps

Prologue

PART ONE: ZION: 1842-1860

　CHAPTER ONE The Preacher

　CHAPTER TWO The Widow

　CHAPTER THREE The Slaves

PART TWO: FIRE: 1861-1865

　CHAPTER FOUR Rebels

　CHAPTER FIVE Neighbors

　CHAPTER SIX Terror

　CHAPTER SEVEN Horror

　CHAPTER EIGHT Exile

PART THREE: DEFIANCE: 1865-1876

　CHAPTER NINE A Year of'Bitterness

　CHAPTER TEN The Guerrillas Return

　CHAPTER ELEVEN The Death of Captain Sheets

　CHAPTER TWELVE The Chivalry of Crime

　CHAPTER THIRTEEN Invisible Empires

　CHAPTER FOURTEEN Allies and Enemies

　CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Persistence of Civil War

　CHAPTER SIXTEEN Ambition

　CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Anabasis

PART FOUR: FATE: 1876-1882

　CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Resurrection

　CHAPTER NINETEEN Assassins

　CHAPTER TWENTY Apotheosis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used

in the Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

　　A native of rural Benton County, Minnesota, T.J. Stiles

studied history at Carleton College and Columbia University, where

he received two graduate degrees. His writings about American

history include articles in Smithsonian, essays in the

Los Angeles Times and the Denver Post, and a

five-volume series of primary-source anthologies. He lives in New

York. For more information on T. J.

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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.

Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.