Background Of A Bandit. The Ancestry Of Jesse James

BEAMIS, JOAN M. & WILLIAM E. PULLEN

Publication: Jesse James Publishers, 1981, Liberty, Missouri

Reprint edition. 8vo. Blue wrappers, [4], viii, 86 pp., note of explanation, foreword, index. Discusses the ancestry of Robert Sallee James and that of his wife, Zerelda E. Cole, the parents of Jesse James and with a brief sketch of Robert Newton "Bob" Ford, who killed Jesse. All of the James children were born in Clay County, Missouri, on a farm near Kearney. Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847. Penciled notations in the index section, covers lightly used, spine reinforced with cellophane tape, light wear to spine ends and extremities.