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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




  [Illustration: JESSE JAMES.

  FROM A LATE PHOTOGRAPH.

    Copyrighted, 1880, by W. S. Bryan. The copyright laws
    will be rigidly enforced against any person making
    or disposing of copies of this picture.]




  [Illustration:

    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,                                               29-34

    CHAPTER V.--AT THE SACK OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS.--The
    black flag unfurled--The Guerrillas mass their
    forces--The march to Lawrence--Capture of the town--Frank
    and Jesse participate,                                       35-39

    CHAPTER VI.--A GORY RECORD.--The cruel strife of the
    border--Death in the thickets--Quantrell and his
    followers,                                                   40-56

    CHAPTER VII.--ADVENTURES IN SEPARATE FIELDS.--Frank
    James follows Quantrell into Kentucky--Fierce
    partisan contests--Death of Quantrell--Jesse follows
    George Shepherd to Texas--The last fight of the war--Jesse
    wounded,                                                     57-65

    CHAPTER VIII.--THE BRANDENBURG TRAGEDY.--Frank
    James followed by four men--They attempt to arrest him--Terrible
    fight--Frank wounded in the left hip--Concealed
    by friends,                                                  66-70

    CHAPTER IX.--THE LIBERTY BANK AFFAIR.--A great
    robbery--St. Valentine's day, and the prize drawn by
    bold marauders--The James Boys accused of the crime,         71-73

    CHAPTER X.--JESSE'S SORTIE AGAINST THE MILITIAMEN.--Attacked
    at night--The family council of war--Jesse
    desires to look out on the