Jesse James Soul Liberty, Vol. I - Behind the Family Wall of Stigma & Silence

by Eric F. James

Winner of the Milton F. Perry Award. Authorized historical biography of the family of Frank & Jesse James, 1799-2000, drawn from primary family sources. Includes family photos, letters, documents, memoirs, interviews, genealogy, source citations, notes, and index. First of five volumes.

412 pages, Hardcover

First published August 12, 2012

About the author

ERIC F. JAMES co-founded the James Preservation Trust with Judge James R. Ross,a great grandson of America's iconic outlaw Jesse James. Eric also is the archivist of the Joan Beamis Research Archive that produced the first genealogy of the Jesse James family, Background of a Bandit, published by the Kentucky Historical Society. Recently, Eric supervised the exhumation of Jesse’s twin children, Gould & Montgomery James,reuniting them with their parents per the wishes of their mother, Zee Mimms-James. Since 1997, Eric writes & publishes the official web site for the Jesse James family, Stray Leaves (www.ericjames.org) and the family blog, Leaves of Gas (http://ericjames.org/wordpress/)