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  • Annals of the great strikes in the United States

    A reliable history and graphic description of the causes and thrilling events of the labor strikes and riots of 1877

    by J. A. Dacus ...
    J. A. Dacus's Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States is a documentary chronicle of America's major labor upheavals in the late nineteenth century, treating strikes not as isolated disturbances but as symptoms of industrial transformation, class tension, and the unstable relations between capital and labor. Written in an urgent, reportorial prose characteristic of Gilded Age social ... Read more

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  • Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Noted Western Outlaws

    by J. A. Dacus ...
    Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James The Noted Western Outlaws by J. A. Dacus: Ride into the Wild West with "Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James"" by J. A. Dacus. This riveting account chronicles the exploits of the infamous James brothers, painting a vivid picture of the lawless frontier and the lives of two of its most notorious outlaws.Why This Book?"Life and Adventures of ... Read more

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  • Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James The Noted Western Outlaws

    by J. A. Dacus ...
    Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Noted Western Outlaws. Authentic and carefully written biographies of the famous Younger Brothers were also added, forming the second part of the present volume. ... Read more

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  • Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws

    Enriched edition. Legends of Lawlessness: The Wild West Adventures of Notorious Outlaws

    by J. A. Dacus, Morgan Gill ...
    In "Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the Noted Western Outlaws," J. A. Dacus delves into the tumultuous lives of the infamous James brothers, whose reputations as outlaws have become mythologized in American folklore. Dacus employs a captivating narrative style, blending historical fact and engaging storytelling to capture the essence of the American West during the late 19th century. ... Read more

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  • Heroes and Villains in Lawless Lands: 23 Books of Wild Justice

    Frontier Tales of Outlaws, Revenge, Survival, and Rough Justice

    by Will C. Barnes, Willis George Emerson, Ned Buntline, Paul S. Powers, James Jackson, James Fellom, Lawrence Mott, William Oliver Turner, J. A. Dacus, James W. Buel, R. D. Blackmore, Emerson Hough, Cole Younger, Otto A. Rothert, Paul Hutchens, Josephine Chase, John Henry Goldfrap, M. M. Oblinger, Joseph Cundall, Richmal Crompton, Thornton W. Burgess ...
    Heroes and Villains in Lawless Lands: 23 Books of Wild Justice gathers twenty-three narratives shaped by the volatile moral geography of frontier, outlaw, and adventure fiction. Its capacious selection moves among melodrama, historical romance, juvenile adventure, crime-inflected pursuit, and rural storytelling, tracing how "wild justice" tests the unstable boundary between lawful authority and ... Read more

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  • Heroes or Villains? - 5 Classic Books About Outlaws Through Time

    Five Classic Tales of Crime, Rebellion, Folk Legend, and Life Beyond the Law

    by August Strindberg, J. A. Dacus, Lawrence Mott ...
    Heroes or Villains? - 5 Classic Books About Outlaws Through Time assembles five classic explorations of criminality, rebellion, and social marginality, asking how the outlaw becomes at once a threat to order and an object of fascination. Moving among dramatic, narrative, and adventure-inflected modes, the volume traces the unstable border between justice and vengeance, individual freedom and ... Read more

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  • Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Illustrated Edition)

    by J. A. Dacus ...
    Series Book 50 - Western Cowboy Classics
    Viewed from the perspective of history, family values, ethics, morals, and upbringing, there's no logical reason the James brothers turned to a life of crime rather than lawful employment. Their family was not poor nor uneducated, and the boys were not beaten nor neglected. They were, as is well-known, Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War, and after the South fell, they turned to robbery and ... Read more

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    Missouri Marauders: The Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

    by J.A. Dacus, John Guccion ...
    Narrated by John Guccion ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Uncover the truth behind the myths of rebellion, justice, and the pursuit of freedom that defined the lives of the notorious James brothers in Missouri Marauders: The Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James by J.A. Dacus, narrated by John Guccion.In this biography, Dacus delves into the lives of Frank and Jesse James, examining their rise to infamy and the legends surrounding them. The book ... Read more

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  • Follow the Heart

    A Great Exhibition Novel

    by Kaye Dacus ...
    Series series A Great Exhibition Novel
    Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Follow the Heart is a “sitting-room romance” with the feel of a Regency-era novel but the fashions and technological advances of the mid-Victorian age.Kate and Christopher Dearing’s lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother’s brother in ... Read more

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  • Ransome's Quest

    by Kaye Dacus ...
    Series series The Ransome Trilogy
    This fast-paced, engaging end to the Ransome Trilogy follows a tale of love and danger on the Caribbean Sea in the early 1800s.Captain William Ransome is searching for his sister, Charlotte, who has been captured by Salvadore, the infamous “Robin Hood of the West Indies.” When word comes that his wife, Julia, has been kidnapped by the evil pirate, Shaw, Captain Ransome and his crew frantically ... Read more

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  • Ransome's Honor

    by Kaye Dacus ...
    Series series The Ransome Trilogy
    The Ransome Trilogy from exciting new author Kaye Dacus combines the wit, romance, and social commentary of Jane Austen with the sea-faring adventure of Horatio Hornblower.July 1814. The war with France has ended, and Captain William Ransome, known for never letting women aboard his ship, has returned to Portsmouth, England. Julia Witherington, considered an old-maid at 29, discovers that she must ... Read more

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  • Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Infamous Western Outlaws

    Civil War Guerrillas, Bank Robberies, and the Making of an Outlaw Legend

    by Joseph A. Dacus ...
    Joseph A. Dacus's Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Infamous Western Outlaws is a sensational yet historically revealing account of the notorious Missouri brothers and their careers as guerrillas, train robbers, and fugitives. Combining purported biography, frontier anecdote, moral commentary, and dramatic reconstruction, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of ... Read more

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