Ron Hansen

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a novel by American writer Ron Hansen. It explored the life and times of Jesse James and his gang, and his death at the hands of Robert Ford.

Touring America was Natalie's idea. But she had not planned on being accompanied on a cross-country bus by her playboy fiancé, Pierre. Nor had they anticipated being stranded in Seldom, Nebraska, population 395. But that is exactly what happens to this French couple, and they quickly find themselves being taken in by …

Desperados is a 1979 novel by Ron Hansen that chronicles the rise and fall of the Dalton Gang. The novel is told in the form of a fictional memoir written in 1937 by 65 year old Emmett Dalton, the last surviving member of the gang. The novel's main characters are Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Gratton "Grat" Dalton, …