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Book Synopsis The Banditti of the Prairies by : Edward Bonney
Download or read book The Banditti of the Prairies written by Edward Bonney and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bonney, the private detective who tracked down the murderers of Colonel George Davenport, published this account. Some members of the band were Mormons or claimed sanctuary in Nauvoo. The band terrorized the upper Mississippi Valley from 1843 to 1848.
Book Synopsis "Banditti of the Prairies" by : Edward Bonney
Download or read book "Banditti of the Prairies" written by Edward Bonney and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Edward Bonney (August 26, 1807 - February 4, 1864) was a 19th-century adventurer, miller, hotel keeper, city planner, counterfeiter, livery stable keeper, bounty hunter, private detective, postmaster, merchant, soldier, and author. He is best known for his undercover work in exposing the "Banditti of the Prairie", resulting from his investigation of the torture-murder of noted Illinois pioneer and frontiersman, George Davenport. The Banditti of the Prairie also, known as "The Prairie Bandits," "Pirates of the Prairie," "Prairie Pirates," or simply "The Banditti," in the U.S. state of Illinois, were a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs during the early-mid-19th century (1800s). Conducted house burglary, horse and cattle theft, stagecoach and highway robbery, counterfeiting, murder.
Book Synopsis The Great American Outlaw by : Frank Richard Prassel
Download or read book The Great American Outlaw written by Frank Richard Prassel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."
Book Synopsis The Banditti of the Prairies by : Edward Bonney
Download or read book The Banditti of the Prairies written by Edward Bonney and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana by : Newberry Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.
Book Synopsis The Prairie and the Making of Middle America by : Dorothy Anne Dondore
Download or read book The Prairie and the Making of Middle America written by Dorothy Anne Dondore and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Six-Shooter State by : Jonathan Obert
Download or read book The Six-Shooter State written by Jonathan Obert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution.
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories seem simple?they left, they traveled, they settled?yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: theøhardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West.
Book Synopsis The Lyon Campaign in Missouri by : Eugene F. Ware
Download or read book The Lyon Campaign in Missouri written by Eugene F. Ware and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the First Iowa Infantry, the author was a private soldier. He desires to give a history of the Regiment, and feels that he cannot do so in a proper way without drawing a brief picture of the conditions that preceded the great conflict. The author served entirely through the war in Iowa regiments so has gone in detail of the history.
Book Synopsis Is Mormonism Christian? by : Gordon H. Fraser
Download or read book Is Mormonism Christian? written by Gordon H. Fraser and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how to respond to Mormon missionaries at your door? Are you curious about the history of Mormonism? Do some of their doctrines sound either offensive or attractive? Have you asked yourself, “Well, now, is Mormonism Christian?” Dr. Gordon H. Fraser has compiled significant answers to these questions. He discusses what those missionaries at your door mean by the words they use and how to most simply and effectively witness to your own faith. Is Mormonism Christian? covers much of the doctrine, practice, and teaching of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and gives an outline of its history. Here is a penetrating analysis of a group known by many but understood by few.
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Book Synopsis Haunted Elkhart County by : Mark P. Doddington
Download or read book Haunted Elkhart County written by Mark P. Doddington and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along Indiana's northern border, Elkhart County is a rich mixture of industry and agriculture, tradition and innovation--and it has a reputation for paranormal activity. The Winchester Mansion is haunted by the eccentric Nellie Knickerbocker, who, rumor says, slept in her own coffin. The spirits of three former workers roam the Old Bag Factory. A scowling spirit in a nurse's uniform once stalked the Clark Street Hospital while the Wilt House is home to a ghostly girl. A basketball player and mysterious organ music both play on at the Washington Township High School, and a former stagehand stalks the Bristol Opera House. Join author Mark P. Doddington for a tour of all things spooky in Elkhart County.
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Download or read book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fifty Years in Iowa by : John McDowell D. Burrows
Download or read book Fifty Years in Iowa written by John McDowell D. Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sketches and Anecdotes of the Old Settlers, and New Comers, the Mormon Bandits and Danite Band by : J. M. Reid
Download or read book Sketches and Anecdotes of the Old Settlers, and New Comers, the Mormon Bandits and Danite Band written by J. M. Reid and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Book Synopsis More Haunted Hoosier Trails by : Wanda Lou Willis
Download or read book More Haunted Hoosier Trails written by Wanda Lou Willis and published by Clerisy Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana folklorist Wanda Lou Willis is back with all-new ghostly tales in this hair-raising companion to Haunted Hoosier Trails. Wanda explores Indiana's hidden history in spooky locations around the state. Local history buffs will relish the informative county histories that begin each chapter, while thrill-seekers will eagerly search out these frightening spots. More Haunted Hoosier Trails is perfect year-round for raising goose-bumps around the campfire or reading under the covers with a flashlight.
Book Synopsis The Centennial History of Illinois ... by : Illinois. Centennial Commission
Download or read book The Centennial History of Illinois ... written by Illinois. Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
