Author: Patrick Leopoldo GrayPublisher:
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Category : Doniphan County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Gray's Doniphan County History
Author: Patrick Leopoldo GrayPublisher:
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Category : Doniphan County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lynchings in Kansas, 1850s-1932
Author: Harriet C. FrazierPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476617791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a "History of Lynching in Kansas." The present book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas. Yost apparently catalogued her 123 entries, some containing up to six names, based on her newspaper sources' headlines, not the actual stories on the lynchings. Her catalog places some events in counties that did not exist at the time of the lynching. In this book, errors in her data are corrected: misspelled names, incorrect places and dates, and the number of victims per incident. In agreement with Yost, the author finds that most of the victims were white men who were horse thieves, their deaths taking place in the eastern tier of counties bordering Missouri, an area then and now where most Kansans lived. The last lynching in Kansas took place in 1932 in the extreme northwest of the state, and an interview of an eyewitness is included.
More Generals in Gray
Author: Bruce S. AllardicePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807131480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Monthly Cumulative Book Index
Author: Journal of a Fur-trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri
Author: John C. LuttigPublisher: St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Annual American Catalog, 1906
Author: Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads
Author: Myron J. Smith, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786495766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were active in some of the most fer"documents the life and career of Joseph Brown, a miller and steamboat captain who built three ironclad gunboats for the US War Department"ocious river fighting of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign. After the war, "Captain Joe" became a railroad executive and was elected mayor of St. Louis. This book covers his life and career, as well as the construction and operational histories of his controversial trio of warships.
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