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History Of The Detection Conviction Life And Designs Of John A Murrell The Great Western Land Pirate
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Book Synopsis History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate by : Augustus Q. Walton
Download or read book History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil A. Stewart happened to be in the right place at the right time. In January 1834, he offered to help a friend in Madison County, Tennessee track down two missing slaves who were believed to have been stolen by a local thief named John A. Murrell. Posing as a man looking for a lost horse, Stewart won Murrell's confidence over the course of several days and the thief shared with him stories of his exploits and revealed various criminal acts he had committed, including robbery, slave stealing, and murder. Murrell also admitted to being the leader of a vast criminal empire with one thousand members-some of whom were well-respected men in their communities-known as the Mystic Clan of the Confederacy. He wanted to convince slaves across the South to rise up against their masters on Christmas night in 1835, during which time Murrell and his clan would rob on a grand scale. History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrel, the Great Western Land Pirate...To Which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Mr. Virgil A. Stewart was first published in 1835, and is the primary source for the life, crimes, and legend of John A. Murrell, a man Stewart labeled "the great Western Land Pirate." Stewart transformed a petty thief from Denmark, Tennessee into a criminal mastermind with a network of like-minded rogues that stretched across the Old Southwest.
Book Synopsis Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland by : James Robert Soda Pitts
Download or read book Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland written by James Robert Soda Pitts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1909 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Organized Crime and American Power by : Michael Woodiwiss
Download or read book Organized Crime and American Power written by Michael Woodiwiss and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.
Book Synopsis Beneath the American Renaissance by : David S. Reynolds
Download or read book Beneath the American Renaissance written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of J.B. Fisher by : Jebe B. Fisher
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of J.B. Fisher written by Jebe B. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of American Crime Fiction by : Chris Raczkowski
Download or read book A History of American Crime Fiction written by Chris Raczkowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.
Book Synopsis The Great Western Land Pirate by : James L. Penick
Download or read book The Great Western Land Pirate written by James L. Penick and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal vengeance against the society that had punished him. He became a highwayman and merciless killer, a horse thief, counterfeiter, and slave stealer. He often disguised himself as a clergyman and preached to congregations while confederates stole their horses. He scattered counterfeit money like confetti. This research was undertaken in a skeptical spirit akin to that of Marshall many years ago. This book is about the legend and about what really happened, but only in a secondary sense is its purpose to set the record straight. How was an indifferent thief transformed into a master criminal?
Book Synopsis William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier by : John Caldwell Guilds
Download or read book William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration.
Book Synopsis History of Tennessee by : James Phelan
Download or read book History of Tennessee written by James Phelan and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 by : David J. Libby
Download or read book Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 written by David J. Libby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the evolution of this frontier society and its unyielding grip on slavery
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Old Atlanta by : Mark Pifer
Download or read book Hidden History of Old Atlanta written by Mark Pifer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the Creeks to the rough-and-ready pioneer days, the area was rich in history long before it was called Atlanta. Author Mark Pifer unfolds a complex saga, including forgotten details from the struggles of African Americans and new immigrants, while noting modern locations bursting with tales that predate the City in the Forest's rise amid the treetops.
Book Synopsis History of the City of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee by : John McLeod Keating
Download or read book History of the City of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee written by John McLeod Keating and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the City of Memphis Tennessee by : John M. Keating
Download or read book History of the City of Memphis Tennessee written by John M. Keating and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flush Times and Fever Dreams by : Joshua D. Rothman
Download or read book Flush Times and Fever Dreams written by Joshua D. Rothman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg, nearly a score of others implicated with a gang of supposed slave thieves were executed in plantation districts, and even those who tried to stop the bloodshed found themselves targeted as dangerous and subversive. Using Stewart’s story as his point of entry, Joshua D. Rothman details why these events, which engulfed much of central and western Mississippi, came to pass. He also explains how the events revealed the fears, insecurities, and anxieties underpinning the cotton boom that made Mississippi the most seductive and exciting frontier in the Age of Jackson. As investors, settlers, slaves, brigands, and fortune-hunters converged in what was then America’s Southwest, they created a tumultuous landscape that promised boundless opportunity and spectacular wealth. Predicated on ruthless competition, unsustainable debt, brutal exploitation, and speculative financial practices that looked a lot like gambling, this landscape also produced such profound disillusionment and conflict that it contained the seeds of its own potential destruction. Rothman sheds light on the intertwining of slavery and capitalism in the period leading up to the Panic of 1837, highlighting the deeply American impulses underpinning the evolution of the slave South and the dizzying yet unstable frenzy wrought by economic flush times. It is a story with lessons for our own day. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.
Book Synopsis Always for the Underdog by : Keagan LeJeune
Download or read book Always for the Underdog written by Keagan LeJeune and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from newspapers, court records, and a decade of interviews and observation, LeJeune offers a penetrating examination of the interplay between legend and place, exploring Smith's own life, this unique historical moment, and the place's mysterious landscape. The book also considers how contemporary festivals and other forms of cultural heritage employ the legend as a cultural recourse. To stay vibrant and meaningful, culture constantly re-makes itself; here, the outlaw occupies a vital role in the re-creation. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Fatal Environment by : Richard Slotkin
Download or read book The Fatal Environment written by Richard Slotkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time National Book Award finalist’s “ambitious and provocative” look at Custer’s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books). In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the “savage” element be permitted to dominate the “civilized,” Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion. “A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history.” —The New York Times “[An] arresting hypothesis.” —Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
