Dimensions
135 x 203 x 18mm
<I>Shot All To Hell</I> tells the story of the most famous bank robbery of all time, involving the Wild West's most celebrated gang of outlaws and their iconic leader, Jesse James. The book gives an hour-by-hour account of robbery and the two-week chase that followed - the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody conclusion on the Watonwan River. But these outlaw robbers are not the only main characters: there are heroic townspeople and citizen pursuers who dramtically defeat the undefeated. Mark Lee Gardner highlights the incredible flight of Jesse and Frank James, an escape that has been given short shrift by writers and historians. Making excellent use of voluminous primary source material, especially contemporary newspaper records, Gardner describes how Jesse and his brother Frank managed to elude the numerous posses intent on capturing them. He also names the killer of Joseph Lee Heywood, the bank's acting cashier - an identity that has been hotly debated for more than 135 years. The book closes with the elegiac endings of the Younger brothers, Cole, Jim, and Bob, and the Jameses, and describes what happened after the manhunt and their years in prison.
