Review: Truths about an infamous outlaw of the past...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Having spent a good deal of childhood living in the American West, Jesse James was a very familiar name to me, and like many Westerners, he was “known” as a bit of a rough and tumble man with a reputation of a good “bad boy”.  Since I never bothered to learn more about the man behind the myth, I was really surprised at the stark tragedy of his life and the inglorious way he died.  He was not the “Robin Hood of the West” I thought him to be with a stubborn independent streak known to most who live out West.  As you read this book for yourself, you might be surprised to discover the depths of destruction that eventually ruined the life of Jesse James probably stemmed from the various outcomes of the Civil War.  There was next to nothing worth “nostalgia” in the later years of James’ life.  Instead of the rugged outlaw and bandit who could secretly be envied, this book gives another true story how crime really does not pay whether past, present, or future – a life of crime is no way to live.