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Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Libraries helped write the American story: Excerpt: " I went upstairs and checked out 920J, and there it was, the very tome I had read over and over again as a kid, ''Jesse James Was My Neighbor,' by Homer Croy. There they were again after all these many years -- Jesse and Frank, the younger brothers, the vile Bob Ford who shot Jesse in the back, the Pinkerton detectives and the botched-up Northfield, Minn., bank job, which my friends and I had recreated repeatedly on the steps of the local Congregational church.
In just a few minutes, an old newspaperman found his youth. It happened in a library."