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Jesse James was my NeighborEntry/Object ID
L2014.26.1272Description
Jesse James Was My Neighbor was written by Homer Croy, a Missouri author. Having heard about the James boys all his life, Mr. Croy decided to spend time going over the routes the James boys went and interviewing relatives and people who actually knew them in an attempt to portray a more accurate picture of the "boys" and their lives. Included in the book are 8 photographs relating to the story and 6 postcards of the James Farm, Kearney, MO (near Excelsior Springs). The book was signed by the author. This book is from the Don Reynolds collection.
The author, Homer Croy, (March 11, 1883 - May 24, 1965), was born on a farm northwest of Maryville, Missouri, and published his first book, When to Lock the Stable, in 1914. During World War I he was production manager in Paris, France, for the Community Motion Picture Bureau, which distributed movies to Allied troops.[1] His first successful book was West of the Water Tower published in 1923. It dealt with hypocrisy in a small town, "Junction City," which was a thinly disguised version of Maryville; a sequel, R.F.D. #3, appeared the following year.
Homer Croy was an American author and occasional screenwriter who wrote fiction and non-fiction books about life in the Midwestern United States. He also wrote several popular biographies, including books on outlaw Jesse James, humorist Will Rogers and film director D.W. Griffith.
Croy's most famous work was the novel They Had to See Paris (1926), about a rural couple from Missouri on a European trip. The book was filmed in 1929 as the first talking picture to star Will Rogers.
Croy had a long but intermittent association with the motion picture industry. Many of his novels and stories were adapted for the screen, and he also directed a series of short travelogue films in 1914-1915; he received screenwriting credits on a handful of feature films in the 1930s. In addition to his biography of D.W. Griffith, he also wrote about the film industry in his 1918 book How Motion Pictures Are Made and a 1932 novel Headed for Hollywood.
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Missouri Author, Jesse James, James, Jesse, James, Frank, Kearney, Missouri, James Farm, St. Joseph Area AuthorsBook Details
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Homer CroyPlace Published
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