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Author: Leland J. Hanchett Publisher: Pine Rim Publishing LLC ISBN: 9780963778581 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
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This book covers the details of the intricate history of the families who participated in and were effected by the Pleasant Valley War. Their experiences and fates are examined carefully family by family. The Grahams, Tewksburys, Lawmen and Hashknife Cowboys are treated one individual at a time. The impact on innocent bystanders is also included.
Author: Leland J. Hanchett Publisher: Pine Rim Publishing LLC ISBN: 9780963778581 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
This book covers the details of the intricate history of the families who participated in and were effected by the Pleasant Valley War. Their experiences and fates are examined carefully family by family. The Grahams, Tewksburys, Lawmen and Hashknife Cowboys are treated one individual at a time. The impact on innocent bystanders is also included.
Author: Eduardo Obregón Pagán Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806162538 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. Valley of the Guns explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement, turning neighbors, families, and friends against one another. While popular historians and novelists have long been captivated by the story, the Pleasant Valley War has more recently attracted the attention of scholars interested in examining the underlying causes of western violence. In this book, author Eduardo Obregón Pagán explores how geography and demographics aligned to create an unstable settlement subject to the constant threat of Apache raids. The fear of surprise attack by day and the theft of livestock by night prompted settlers to shape their lives around the expectation of sudden violence. As the forces of progress strained natural resources, conflict grew between local ranchers and cowboys hired by ranching corporations. Mixed-race property owners found themselves fighting white cowboys to keep their land. In addition, territorial law enforcement officers were outsiders to the community and approached every suspect fully armed and ready to shoot. The combination of unrelenting danger, its accompanying stress, and an abundance of firearms proved deadly. Drawing from history, geography, cultural studies, and trauma studies, Pagán uses the story of Pleasant Valley to demonstrate a new way of looking at the settlement of the West. Writing in a vivid narrative style and employing rigorous scholarship, he creatively explores the role of trauma in shaping the lives and decisions of the settlers in Pleasant Valley and offers new insight into the difficulties of survival in an isolated frontier community.
Author: Cecil Brown Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674028906 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is. Stack Lee? Stagger Lee? He has gone by all these names in the ballad that has kept his exploits before us for over a century. Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as "Deep Morgan," Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. How the legend grew is a story in itself, and Brown tracks it through variants of the song "Stack Lee"--from early ragtime versions of the '20s, to Mississippi John Hurt's rendition in the '30s, to John Lomax's 1940s prison versions, to interpretations by Lloyd Price, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett, right up to the hip-hop renderings of the '90s. Drawing upon the works of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, Brown describes the powerful influence of a legend bigger than literature, one whose transformation reflects changing views of black musical forms, and African Americans' altered attitudes toward black male identity, gender, and police brutality. This book takes you to the heart of America, into the soul and circumstances of a legend that has conveyed a painful and elusive truth about our culture.
Author: Bob Henneberger Publisher: Tempt Press ISBN: 098301180X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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Although Hell can be portrayed as a vivid tangible landscape, in reality it's a mental backdrop. Loss of self respect and worth as well as a loss of purpose can plunge a person into his own hell on many levels. This tale explores the theme of loss and redemption by following two characters separated in time by four generations, each man dealing with a life crisis. One story, set in the later half of the nineteenth century, follows a white orphan boy raised by people of mixed race. He has never reconciled his self hatred, nor his love-hate relationship with the land that formed him. Set in the current time, the parallel story begins as four friends go on a hunting trip together. An unexpected storm triggers an accident, and leaves the four men stranded. The two stories intertwine through the experiences of the contemporary character, John, and his direct ancestor, Paul. During the contemporary hunting group's search for a way out of the unfamiliar woods, they are attacked, apparently by a group of ragged men dressed in nineteenth century clothes. John is wounded. As his friends try in vain to find civilization, John realizes that the increasingly strange events stem from a one hundred and fifty year old conflict that somehow centers around him. Whether he is hallucinating from injuries sustained in the original van wreck, or from injuries one hundred and fifty years old, he must resolve his ancestor's past conflicts to resolve his own.
Author: Peter Kilduff Publisher: Grub Street Publishers ISBN: 1910690937 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 193
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A “superb” look at one of the Great War’s most storied combat pilots and his legendary solo missions, with never-before-published photos (Barrett Tillman). William Avery Bishop is recognized as the British Empire’s highest-scoring WWI ace, credited with seventy-two combat victories. Overall, he ranked behind only Manfred von Richthofen and René Fonck. This remarkable man’s story—his personal courage, daring, and superior marksmanship—has been detailed in books and articles, but here author Peter Kilduff investigates the untold story, bringing new light to missions and kills that have been previously steeped in controversy through evenhanded, thorough research and forensic evidence. As so many of Bishop’s victories were achieved during solo combat, the author examines and scrutinizes German, British, and Canadian archival sources, Bishop’s private correspondence, and accounts by friends and foes. Such an approach provides as complete an account as possible, in a valuable work featuring many previously unpublished photographs. “Kilduff is not the first to conduct such an inquiry into Bishop’s claim of 72 victories, but his book is by far the best researched . . . expertly laid out, with photos of the aircraft mentioned by Bishop, particularly the German types. Kilduff has done a marvelous and subtle job of showing how a real hero became larger than life.” —Aviation History
Author: Leland J. Hanchett, Jr. Publisher: Pine Rim Publishing LLC ISBN: 0963778595 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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The Benton Road ran from Fort Benton to Helena, Montana. It was the life line for settlers, miners and the military during Montana's pioneering days. Freight and pioneers would board steamships at St Joseph, Missouri and travel the Missouri River to Fort Benton. From there it was up to this road and its feeder roads to provide the people and goods necessary for settling and mining the vast wealth contained in that portion of the Rocky Mountains. Freight wagons, and caravans of people would travel the road. Eventually, stagecoach travel was added to the traffic along the way.
Author: Jay Miller Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 0865344582 Category : DNA fingerprinting Languages : en Pages : 134
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In early 2003, three sheriffs set out to prove that Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid, thereby also proving that Brushy Bill of Hico, Texas was not the real Kid. Along their way, the sheriffs enlisted New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's support and took two communities on a wild ride through court battles to dig up Billy and his mother. Governor Richardson found an attorney willing to work free and provide Billy with a voice. Follow "Billy" as he speaks for himself in court, requesting that he and his mother be dug up to examine the DNA in their dusty remains for evidence that they were related. And follow the small towns of Fort Sumner and Silver City, New Mexico as they fight to retain the integrity of their municipal cemeteries and keep the legend of Billy the Kid from crumbling away. Author Jay Miller followed the strange unfolding of events, digging to find the source of the money that financed an official murder investigation and the court action against two courageous small towns struggling to prevent the exhumations.
Author: Thodeo Publisher: Thodeo ISBN: 1500875112 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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This book is not written to attack white people,this book was written to be served as an eye opener to let the world have a vision of what the world would be like if the Racism shoe was on the other foot.This novel Reversed Racism is filled with scenes that is just asking the question how would whites have felt if the shoe was on the other foot,and Blacks did to whites,what whites did to Blacks.This book is only an eye opener to get whites,Blacks and the rest of the world to open up their hearts and minds and understand Blacks pain,and what we have been through.The author of this book is in no way prejudice.He's just asking how would whites have liked it if they were put through what us Blacks were put through.Just because of the color of our skin.What if Racism was Reversed and Blacks treated whites that way just because of the color of their skin?How would they have liked it? This novel is dedicated to President Obama,Dr Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks,Larry Hoover,Stanley Tookie Williams,Rodney King,Michael Vick,Trayvon Martin,Jordan Davis,Kathryn Johnston,Renisha McBride and anybody else who has been talked about, mistreated, suffered,or killed just because of the color of their skin. Justice for MICHAEL BROWN!!!!
Author: Leland J. Hanchett
Author: Leland J. Hanchett
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