This nonfiction work by the novelist MacKinley Kantor was written after he and his wife vacationed in Missouri.Kantor recalls stories of Jesse James (he once blew an allowance to see the corpus delicti) and Daniel Boone. He includes a nice 1935 tale about the youthful ghost of Mark Twain.
This book is part of the Non-Fiction Books series and is book #2 in the series.