Author : Ralph A. Monaco
Publisher : Monaco Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578104261
$800 REWARD FOR THE ARREST & CONVICTION OF THE LEEDS GANG!Enter a Turn of the 20th Century World of Ruthlessness, Railroads, Robbers,Rebels & Rogues . . .
Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 082486154X
On a spring afternoon in 1509 a local bandit found himself in the emperor's private quarters deep within the Forbidden City and in the presence of the Son of Heaven himself. This bizarre meeting was the doing of the eunuch Zhang Zhong, the emperor's personal servant and companion. In time court intrigue between competing palace eunuchs would lead to the death of this bandit-turned-rebel, setting off a massive uprising that resulted in China's largest rebellion of the sixteenth century. To understand how this extraordinary meeting came about requires a consideration of the economy of violence during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Here, for the first time in any language, is a detailed look at the role of illicit violence during the Ming. Drawing on court annals, imperial law codes, administrative regulations, private writings, and local gazetteers, David Robinson recreates in vivid detail a world where heavily armed highwaymen and bandits raided the boulevards in and around the Ming capital, Beijing. He then convincingly traces the roots of this systemic mayhem to economic, ethnic, social, and institutional factors at work in local society.
Author : Laura James
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781402760693
A beautiful and ruthless lady from Ohio, Zeo Zoe Wilkins made her living as a gold digger, marrying a series of wealthy older men. She hired attorney Jesse James, Jr. to provide legal muscle to extract money from an ex-husband. On the night of March 15, 1924, she was brutally murdered in her Kansas City home. Deftly mixing historical conjecture with forensic fact, the author follows the opportunistic, eccentric, and troubled lives of Wilkins and James, while making a convincing case that their mutual avarice led to a murderous confrontation that bloody night.
Author : Trevor McKenzie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469664720
Legions of bluegrass fans know the name Otto Wood (1893–1930) from a ballad made popular by Doc Watson, telling the story of Wood's crimes and violent death. However, few know the history of this Appalachian figure beyond the larger-than-life version heard in song. Trevor McKenzie reconstructs Wood's life, tracing how a Wilkes County juvenile delinquent became a celebrated folk hero. Throughout his short life, Wood was jailed for numerous offenses, stole countless automobiles, lost his left hand, and made eleven escapes from five state penitentiaries, including four from the North Carolina State Prison after a 1923 murder conviction. An early master of controlling his own narrative in the media, Wood appealed to the North Carolina public as a misunderstood, clever antihero. In 1930, after a final jailbreak, police killed Wood in a shootout. The ballad bearing his name first appeared less than a year later. Using reports of Wood's exploits from contemporary newspapers, his self-published autobiography, prison records, and other primary sources, Trevor McKenzie uses this colorful story to offer a new way to understand North Carolina—and arguably the South as a whole—during this era of American history.
Author : Billy Jaynes Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780890961940
What Jesse James was to the United States, Lampião was to Brazil, and then some. With a band that at times numbered a hundred or more, this notorious bandit confronted state armies on more than equal terms and cowed political bosses, virtually dominating large sections of his native northeastern backlands during the 1920s and 1930s. Although Lampião was often brutal and merciless, his occasional acts of compassion, together with his exploits, have made him a folk figure in Brazil. Based on contemporary news accounts, archival materials, and extensive interviews by the author, this book presents the first systematic and reliable account of the famed desperado. Examining Lampião's career from his boyhood in Pernambuco to his death at Angicos, Chandler sorts fact from fiction and places the bandit in the context of the backlands, where in the early part of this century becoming a cangaceiro (bandit) was as natural and attractive to the son of a tenant or small farmer as taking a degree in law or medicine was for the sons of the Recife or Salvador elite. Chandler sees Lampião and other cangaceiros as the inevitable products of a lawless society in which frontier conditions reminiscent of the American West persisted far into the twentieth century.
Author : Hannah Shaw
Publisher : Random House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Behavior
ISBN : 178008000X
Ralph Raccoon is too polite so his parents send him to Bandit School to learn to behave like a properly bad raccoon.
Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481450549
Frank and Joe are on a mission to track down a thief in the first book in an all-new, interactive Hardy Boys chapter book mystery series. Have a piece of paper nearby so you can jot down your own ideas and solutions to the case! Bayport Elementary is throwing a fundraiser so they can go on an end-of-the-year trip. Ellie Freeman’s parents have volunteered their house for the event, and neighbors have donated all sorts of prizes to be raffled off including movie tickets and gift certificates to Fun World. But the best prize of all is a brand-new ZCross50000, a video game system that every kid has been drooling over. But sometime during the event, the ZCross goes missing. Can Frank and Jo figure out who took the prize before it’s too late to save the big school trip?
Author : B. B. Reid
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781539710912
A missing legacy, a stolen son, and one dangerous secret changed everything for them... SHE STOLE MY PROPERTY I'll never forget the night I caught her sneaking around my place. She thought she could steal from me and get away with it, but I have no intention of letting her get away at all. Mian Ross has a lesson to learn, and I'm going to be the one to teach it to her. HE STOLE MY SON I'll never forget the night I made the second biggest mistake of my life. It was supposed to be a simple job, but it quickly became so much more--one that cost my freedom and cost my son. Angel Knight became my worst nightmare... and now, he'll never let us go.
Author : The Bandit's of Bandarson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491724684
The Bandit’s of Bandarson is the fifth book of The Valley Series. In previous works, you have learned of the trials that all of rightful magic have been forced to face. In the last book, The Dark War, you learned of the pains that all must endure, when they fight for what is right. The cost in lives had been high in The Dark War, and the mourning for those lost, went on for years. The new Overseer of the Realm, Namson, and his wife, Glornina, lead them through these pains, and the feeling of peace, and happiness, had returned to all of the domains. In this work, The Bandit’s of Bandarson, you will learn the truth that evil, in different form, will again find its way into the worlds of magic. The evil of greed, and uncaring, that so many have faced before. The evil of those who would steal what they have not earned, and the dangers they place on others with their avarice. You will find that again, the ones of Rightful Magic, will learn of a threat, and they will face it, not without fear, but with a strength that evil must bow to. Here you will learn of the strength of one young woman, named Isabella, who battles her captors with a determination, few can know. That with the help of those who care for what is right, in their own way, win the simplest, yet the greatest of victories. The value of her own worth, and the strength of her love, for Melsikan. Come journey with her, as she faces her trials.
Author : Georgina Gentry
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420138243
TOO AROUSED TO RESIST When her scheming, jealous stepmother-to-be forced Amethyst Durango to enter a convent, the headstrong heiress swore she'd experience life to the fullest before being shut away. And when her violet eyes gazed upon the handsome Texas drifter at a sleepy stage stopover, Amethyst knew she'd found her mate. His sensual glance made her shiver with anticipation; his big calloused hands would electrify her with ecstasy. But when he galloped off afterwards without any promises to rescue her, the deceived senorita vowed she'd get back at the double-crosser—even if it meant never savoring his lying lips again! TOO LUCIOUS TO BE LAWFUL Rangy, rugged Bandit knew how to hold his cards, his liquor and his women, but when he first met the alluring Mexican maiden, he knew this was one gal he shouldn't touch! She was too young, too innocent, and too rich for a no-good mixed-blood cowboy like himself. Still, he couldn't stop his mouth from crushing hers any more than he could keep a stallion from a mare. And after he'd tasted and teased her, and pleasured and pleased her, it was too late to tell Amethyst he was on the run—and he could never again shelter her in his BANDIT'S EMBRACE.
