Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of state-funded secret police. But Thomas Crittenden knew that to catch a ...

His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of ...

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination ... this revealing exposé traces the outlaw's life from his humble Southern childhood through ...