The story of Jesse Jamees remains one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. Jesse James, so the legend goes, was a Western outlaw, though, in fact, he never went west; America's own Robin Hood, though he robbed from the poor as well as the rich, and kept it all for himeself, and a gunfighter whose victims, in reality, were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was in fact a roduct from first to last of the American Civil War...