Author : Sean Mclachlan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1493015516
True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
Author : Richard Young
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780874831955
Presents a collection of folklore, tall tales, and myths surrounding such characters as Belle Starr, Frank and Jesse James, and Wild Bill Hickok
Author : Ross Malone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1449097162
These one hundred short stories are inspirational, humorous, and interesting for students or anyone interested in the people and events that figured in the life of Missouri, the Mother of the West. Learn things you didn't know about Jesse James, Walt Disney, Kit Carson, Bald Knobers, Ozarkers and prairie folks who gave us what we enjoy today. American Exceptionalism is proudly and laughingly on display in the pages of Tales From Missouri and the Heartland. This is a great gift for students, teachers, former Midwesterners, people in the military or travelers who enjoy light reading in the airport or on the plane. Every story is bound to make them think of another story just as good.
Author : Paul Kirkman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625859155
Series title from The History Press website.
Author : David W. Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780974136561
This commemorative souvenir documents the origin and evolution of the oldest structure on the historic Independence Courthouse Square-the 1859 Jackson County Jail and Marshal's Home (and its 19th Century predecessors). "Captured" here is an in-depth study offering "skeleton keys" to "unlocking" history of the early lock downs, of those who defied frontier justice, and the systems and strongmen (and their overlooked wives) who tried to keep law and order in Jackson County, Missouri. A roster of ALL Jackson County Sheriffs AND Jackson County Marshals, and separate "rap sheet" of ALL legal hangings in Jackson County "caps" this first-ever comprehensive study spanning from 1826--when Jackson County was formed--to 1933 when the 1859 Jackson County Jail was decommissioned. David W. Jackson and Paul Kirkman have also explored how the site was adaptively re-used during the Great Depression of the 1930s; through World War II in the 1940s; and, how it was saved by the Jackson County Historical Society in 1958, and continues as a unique, cultural history museum, located at 217 North Main Street, Independence, Missouri.
Author : Lisa Livingston-Martin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1614237441
For southwest Missouri, the Civil War was an unparalleled period of violence, sorrow and anger. As the torches burned the physical landscape, the depredations inflicted were also scorched upon the psyche of the people who lived through fires. Survey Carthage's battlefield for stubborn holdouts or hold vigil at the Kendrick House for innocent bystanders who were swept up into the stratagems of bushwhackers and guerrillas. Meet the Bloody Spikes, Rotten Johnny Reb and scores more figures from the region's past who continue to trouble its present.
Author : Cole Younger
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Woodrell
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316193399
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press). Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories -- between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, "the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer"-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution "Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original"-Associated Press, American master.
Author : Michael W. Cuneo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780312936754
A bizarre story that could only happen in America, this is a vivid, eye-opening narrative about a murderer, the Midwestern culture that spawned him, and the Pope who saved his life.
Author : Homer Croy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803264007
Violence dictated the daily rhythms of Cole Younger?s life. During the Civil War he was selected to join Quantrill?s Raiders because he owned his own revolver. His participation in the brutal 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas, drove him and other guerrillas into hiding as Union troops sought to punish the perpetrators of atrocities including the murder of women and children. Younger met up with Jesse James in 1866. The James and Younger families cooperated in a series of bank and train robberies over the next decade that led to a feeling of invincibility. That feeling came to an end in Northfield, Minnesota, when local citizens killed two of the gang and wounded most of the others. Cole and his younger brothers were captured, tried, and sentenced to life in the Minnesota State Penitentiary. But even a life sentence could not keep Younger in prison. Despite a career that included thirty wounds, battles with Pinkerton detectives and Yankees, an affair with outlaw Belle Starr, and a near-fatal confrontation with Jesse James, Cole Younger survived to become a living legend in his home state of Missouri. He died peacefully, a free man.
