Download or read book Jesse James was My Neighbor written by Homer Croy and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1883, the year after Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford and buried in his mother's backyard, Homer Croy grew up near the James farm in northwest Missouri. He talked with many old-timers who knew Jesse and Frank James and their remarkable mother, Zerelda.