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The Dirty Little Coward Gets His Due

by | Jan 20, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

“I remember telling Ron once that I considered The Assassination of Jesse James as by far the best Jesse James movie ever made. He replied that he thought of it not as a Jesse James movie but as a Bob Ford movie.” —Mark Lee Gardner, author of Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape We recently got a chance to catch up with the brilliant writer Ron Hansen, who created the book that launched the movie  that many of us consider the best J


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