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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication date
August 12, 2001
Pages
416
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786708970
ISBN-10
0786708972
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.60 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$26.00
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description:
For twenty-four years Frank Grigware ran from the law. Convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sentenced in 1909 to life in Leavenworth, America’s first federal penitentiary, Grigware joined five other inmates in a daring escape. The six men hijacked a supply train and rammed it through the prison’s west gate. Investigative journalist Joe Jackson, four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and 2002 Edgar Award nominee for Best Fact Crime book, follows a young, guileless Grigware in a journey not to fabulous adventure in America’s legendary West but rather to an ill-fated association with train robbers—and to his arrest and soon, imprisonment. Five months later, Grigware would be journeying again, this time in desperate flight across the Canadian border to a new life as a husband, father, and mayor. Grigware’s story is also the story of the Pinkerton detective agency and of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which sought Grigware through the 1920s and ’30s. It culminates in a meticulously documented, revealing examination of criminal justice in two nations, when Grigware is apprehended by Canadian Mounties and the Canadian government refuses to extradite to the United States “the sort of man we want settling our land”—with results more surprising than fiction. Eight pages of photographs complete this tale of America's most elusive fugitive. “A journalistic meditation on frustrated fantasies, crime, punishment, justice and absolution.... Absorbing.... Meticulously documented.”—Washington Post “Gripping.”—The Economist
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Hardcover
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from Basic Books (August 12, 2001)
9780786708970 | details & prices | 416 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $26.00
About: An account of a twenty-four year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself.
About: An account of a twenty-four year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Basic Books (September 17, 2002)
9780786710607 | details & prices | 432 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s.
About: A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s.
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