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Book Synopsis The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois by : Milo Erwin
Download or read book The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois written by Milo Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois covering the deadly family feuds and Ku Klux Klan activities during the decade following the Civil War that took place in the heart of Southern Illinois, particularly focused in the counties of Franklin, Jackson and Williamson. Milo Erwin wrote the first major account of the Vendetta during its immediate aftermath in 1876 as part of his History of Williamson County, Illinois. Now, Jon Musgrave takes Erwin's account and expands upon it with additional material from surrounding counties and further research into the characters who left such a mark on the region.
Book Synopsis Bloody Williamson by : Paul M. Angle
Download or read book Bloody Williamson written by Paul M. Angle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Williamson County some men took to violence almost as a way of life. A shocking story, well told."--New Yorker Williamson County in southern Illinois has been the scene of almost unparalleled violence, from the Bloody Vendetta between two families in the 1870s through the Herrin Massacre of 1922, Ku Klux Klan activities that ended in fatalities, and the gang war of the 1920s between the Charlie Birger and Shelton brothers gangs. Paul Angle was fascinated by this more-than-fifty-year history, and his account of this violence has become a classic.
Book Synopsis Bloody Williamson by : Paul McClelland Angle
Download or read book Bloody Williamson written by Paul McClelland Angle and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with the "Bloody Vendetta," a feud that rampaged in the 1870s. It deals with labor's success in organizing coal mines in southern Illinois, an affair that twice blew up in violence. It covers the Herrin Massacre of 1922--perhaps the most shocking episode in the history of organized labor in this country--and the subsequent trials. The Ku Klux Klan provides material for four chapters that come to a climax in a fatal duel between the Klan and its opponents. And it ends with the story of the gang war between Charlie Birger and the Shelton brothers.
Book Synopsis Bloody Williamson by : Paul M. Angle
Download or read book Bloody Williamson written by Paul M. Angle and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place in which a strange disease has raged for more than eighty years—a disease marked by a pathological tendency to settle differences by force. Fascinated by this, Paul M. Angle, the well-known historian, set out to discover what really had happened. Through enormous research he has been able to reconstruct the whole story in all its horrible, scarifying detail. Using the best techniques of reportage, without editorializing, without subjective coloration, he has produced a narrative beyond imagination. It begins with the "Bloody Vendetta," a feud that rampaged in the 1870s. It deals with labor's success in organizing coal mines in southern Illinois, an affair that twice blew up in violence. It covers the Herrin Massacre of 1922—perhaps the most shocking episode in the history of organized labor in this country—and the subsequent trials. The Ku Klux Klan provides material for four chapters that come to a climax in a fatal duel between the Klan and its opponents. And it ends with the story of the gang war between Charlie Birger and the Shelton brothers. It is a tale to shake the most phlegmatic reader.
Book Synopsis Complete history of southern Illinois' gang war by : E. Bishop Hill
Download or read book Complete history of southern Illinois' gang war written by E. Bishop Hill and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 200? with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete history of southern Illinois' gang war: the true story of southern Illinois gang warfare
Book Synopsis History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois by : Bruce L. Cline
Download or read book History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois written by Bruce L. Cline and published by BLACK OAK MEDIA INC. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the archives of the Little Egypt Ghost Society and the Gaslight Ghoul Club have been opened. Within these pages, uncover the secrets behind some of southern Illinois' most famous ghost stories and legends. Bruce and Lisa Cline expose the truth behind the Murphysboro Mud Monster, present evidence of paranormal activity at places such as the Rose Hotel, Oakland Cemetery, and Harrisburg's Cinema 4, and explain the history behind some of southern Illinois' most controversial and eccentric figures. From the Old Slavehouse, to the Rose Hotel, to the Woodlawn Sarcophagus and beyond, join the Little Egypt Ghost Society as they explore some of Illinois' oldest and most interesting places!
Book Synopsis Secrets of the Herrin Gangs by : Ralph Johnson
Download or read book Secrets of the Herrin Gangs written by Ralph Johnson and published by Illinoishistory.com. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Herrin Massacre of 1922 by : Greg Bailey
Download or read book The Herrin Massacre of 1922 written by Greg Bailey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois. When the owner of the town's local mine hired non-union workers to break the strike, violent conflict broke out between the strikebreakers and unionized miners, who were all heavily armed. When strikebreakers surrendered and were promised safe passage home, the unionized miners began executing them before large, cheering crowds. This book tells the cruel truth behind the story that the coal industry tried to suppress and that Herrin wants to forget. A thorough account of the massacre and its aftermath, this book sets a heartland tragedy against the rise and decline of the coal industry.
Book Synopsis It Happened in Southern Illinois by : John W. Allen
Download or read book It Happened in Southern Illinois written by John W. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Under the Banner of Heaven by : Jon Krakauer
Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Book Synopsis Bloody Williamson by : Paul McClelland Angle
Download or read book Bloody Williamson written by Paul McClelland Angle and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inside the Shelton Gang by : Ruthie Shelton
Download or read book Inside the Shelton Gang written by Ruthie Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Shelton Gang tells the true story of what happens when a father’s wall of secrets begin to crumble and a family’s lost heritage of violence erupts from the front pages of history. For daughter Ruthie it’s a discovery that will forever change her life as she learns what it meant to be a Shelton in the days of Prohibition and the decades following, to be a member of a crime family that rivaled Al Capone’s for control of Illinois.
Book Synopsis Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw by : Jon Musgrave
Download or read book Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw written by Jon Musgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete account yet of the Old Slave House and what may be the last station standing on the Reverse Underground Railroad operated by John Hart Crenshaw on his Hickory Hill plantation. This 3rd edition is the paperback version of the expanded and revised hardcover 2nd edition.
Book Synopsis American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking by : Hualing Hu
Download or read book American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking written by Hualing Hu and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000-03-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the Japanese soldiers ordered Vautrin to leave the campus, she replied: "This is my home. I cannot leave." Facing down the bloodstained bayonets constantly waved in her face, Vautrin shielded the desperate Chinese who sought asylum behind the gates of the college. Vautrin exhausted herself defying the Japanese army and caring for the refugees after the siege ended in March 1938.".
Book Synopsis Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups by : Mark S. Hamm
Download or read book Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups written by Mark S. Hamm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.
Book Synopsis Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois by : Charles Neely
Download or read book Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois written by Charles Neely and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938, this lively collection of over 150 tales and songs runs the gamut from joy to woe, from horror to humor. In forming the collection, Charles Neely required only that the tales and songs—whether home grown or transplanted from the great body of world lore— had taken root somehow in the area of southern Illinois known as Egypt. Notable tales include "Bones in the Well," "A Visit from Jesse James," "The Flight of the Naked Teamsters," "The Dug Hill Boger," and "How Death Came to Ireland"; among the songs and ballads are "Barbara Allen," "Hog and Hominy," "The Drunkard’s Lone Child," "The Belleville Convent Fire," "Shawneetown Flood," and "The Death of Charlie Burger."
Download or read book Deadlock written by Mark Walden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-octane adventures continue in the eighth book of the H.I.V.E. series, and the team of supremely talented criminals is forced to question everything they know about life as villains. Otto and Raven are desperate to rescue their friends from the clutches of Anastasia Furan, head of the evil Disciples organization. First they must track down the location of the Glasshouse, the prison where Furan trains children to become ruthless assassins. But Otto is also being hunted. In the three months since his “expulsion” from H.I.V.E., The Artemis Section—an elite intelligence division that goes after the toughest targets and reports only to the US president—has had an opportunity to locate him. Set against the backdrop of a daring high-tech prison break, nothing is quite as it seems in Deadlock.
