The Unknown Bell County
Author : Jim D. Bowmer
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Bell County (Tex.)
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Author : Jim D. Bowmer
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Bell County (Tex.)
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Author : George W. Tyler
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Page : 425 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bell County (Tex.)
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Author : George W. Tyler
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Page : 425 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Bell County Historical Commission
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2001
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Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Mines and mineral resources
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Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
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Author : Clifford R. Caldwell
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1632930889
Since 1819 over 3,000 souls found their personal “eternity at the end of a rope” in Texas. Some earned their way. Others were the victim of mistaken identity, or an act of vigilante justice. Deserved or not, when the hangman’s knot is pulled up tight and the black cap snugged down over your head it is too late to plead your case. This remarkable story begins in 1819 with the first legal hanging in Texas. By 1835 accounts of lynching dotted the records. Although by 1923 legal execution by hanging was discontinued in favor of the electric chair, vigilante justice remained a favorite pastime for some. The accounts of violence are numbing. The cultural and racial implications are profound, and offer a far more accurate, unbiased insight into the tally of African-American and Hispanic victims of mob violence in the Lone Star State than has ever been presented. Many of these deeds were nothing short of morbid theater, worthy of another era. This book is backed up by years of research and thousands of primary source documents. Includes Index and Bibliography.
Author : Tim Cornett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1625843224
Site of the Gateway to the West, the Cumberland Gap, the history of Kentucky begins right here in Bell County. Early pioneers like Thomas Walker and Daniel Boone endured the untamed wilderness and opened the door to the Bluegrass for civilizations to follow. Those who subsequently made their homes herewho eked a living out of the rocky soil, survived civil war, world war, labor war and the booms and busts of timber and coalhave preserved this pioneering spirit. Lifelong resident Tim Cornett presents the history of his homeland from its first known inhabitants through the twentieth century, drawing on old letters, memoirs and personal interviews from the men and women who explored the land, exploited the land and shaped it into the Bell County we know today.