Arm of the Bandit: The Trial of Frank James (A Guns and Gavel Novel)
Nov 2002 · Penguin
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From a Spur Award–winning author of the Five Star Western Series comes a thrilling tale of James clan.
Outlaws Frank and Jesse James eluded capture for 16 years and became folk heroes. In 1882, after Jesse was killed by Bob, Frank surrendered and faced trial for murder. How could Missouri convict a man so popular that the governor almost needed an appointment to visit him in jail?
William Wallace had already imprisoned one member of the untouchable James Gang. Now his case rested on the word of a scoundrel and defied those who would kill to protect Frank James. The defense would paint the Shakespeare-quoting robber as an honorable family man and victim of mistaken identity, endlessly persecuted by the hated railroads.
Inside an opera house, the circus like trial would decide if James senselessly murdered a young stonemason during the 1881 Winston train robbery. Perhaps the larger question was if Missouri was ruled by the arm of the law—or the arm of the bandit.
Outlaws Frank and Jesse James eluded capture for 16 years and became folk heroes. In 1882, after Jesse was killed by Bob, Frank surrendered and faced trial for murder. How could Missouri convict a man so popular that the governor almost needed an appointment to visit him in jail?
William Wallace had already imprisoned one member of the untouchable James Gang. Now his case rested on the word of a scoundrel and defied those who would kill to protect Frank James. The defense would paint the Shakespeare-quoting robber as an honorable family man and victim of mistaken identity, endlessly persecuted by the hated railroads.
Inside an opera house, the circus like trial would decide if James senselessly murdered a young stonemason during the 1881 Winston train robbery. Perhaps the larger question was if Missouri was ruled by the arm of the law—or the arm of the bandit.
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Johnny D. Boggs grew up on a farm near Timmonsville, South Carolina, and knew he wanted to be a writer at an early age. He has won the prestigious Spur Award from Western Writers of America a record nine times: for the novels Camp Ford, Doubtful Cañon, Hard Winter, Legacy of a Lawman, West Texas Kill, Return to Red River, Taos Lightning and A Thousand Texas Longhorns and the short story “A Piano at Dead Man’s Crossing.”
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