| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Book Review

The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang. By Robert Barr Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xiv + 252 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)

It was inevitable, given that (at the time of writing) we are "celebrating" the 125th anniversary of the James-Younger gang's raid on Northfield, Minnesota, that a number of books on the event should appear. John Koblas stole a march on the competition with The Jesse James Northfield Raid: Confessions of the Ninth Man (St. Cloud, MN, 1999), followed by Faithful Unto Death two years later. A reprint of the rare first edition of John Jay Lemon's The Northfield Tragedy (1876; reprint, London, 2001) also appeared. It is only to be expected that Smith's book will be compared with the two volumes by John Koblas. . . .

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