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This collection of events carries readers through an era of bootlegging, highway robbery, and vigilante courts. From the cow town of Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the booming mining camp of Granby, Missouri, the Ozarks were a magnet for lawlessness. Though some stories contain gory details, the author’s intention in narrating these events is not to pay tribute to the likes of the Tri-State Terror, Bloody Britton, or the Missouri Kid. Instead Larry Wood aspires to come to terms with the region’s violent past, learn from it, and move forward.
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With a history as dark and bloody as any in our nation, the Natchez Trace has always been more than just a thoroughfare. Growing out of a need for a return route for flatboats that floated down the Mississippi, the Trace winds up from Natchez, Mississippi, through Alabama and ends in Nashville, Tennessee.
From early settler adventures to post-Civil War recovery, this account of Monroe, Louisiana’s history provides a timeline of the city from 1530 to 1936. Highlighting interesting events in Monroe’s development, this resource follows the locale from its beginning as a camp for explorers to a bustling city with fifty miles of paved streets. Memorable moments from the twentieth century include social, political, and economic developments. Some of the buildings described remained registered as National Historic Places in the twenty-first century.
In the decade preceding the Civil War, New Orleans was a boisterous port with one of the most diverse populations in the world. But the city was enjoying a transient heyday, soon to be replaced by devastation and Reconstruction.
Well-known Shreveport historian Eric J. Brock details the history of the city’s commerce, civic development, neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, peculiar events, culture, religion, and education. Based on his columns for the long-running weekly series, “The Presence of the Past,” which appeared weekly in the Shreveport Journal Page, it is the result of many years of documentation and research. Hardcover.
Well-known Shreveport historian Eric J. Brock details the history of the city’s commerce, civic development, neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, peculiar events, culture, religion, and education. Based on his columns for the long-running weekly series, “The Presence of the Past,” which appeared weekly in the Shreveport Journal Page, it is the result of many years of documentation and research.
This classic reprint evokes a city steeped in the traditions and idiosyncrasies of three cultures—French, Spanish, and American. Paperback.
This classic reprint evokes a city steeped in the traditions and idiosyncrasies of three cultures—French, Spanish, and American.
The thunder and excitement of the race has long drawn visitors to the Fair Grounds. The history of one of America’s oldest thoroughbred horseracing tracks is chronicled here through text, rare photographs, and archival lithographs.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed thousands of homes, schools, and businesses across the Gulf Coast and changed the face of southeast Louisiana forever. However, nearly a hundred miles northwest of New Orleans, in Lafayette, Louisiana, a different story was unfolding. As men, women, and children waited on their roofs for rescue, executive director Greg Davis hurried to prepare the Cajundome in Lafayette as an emergency shelter.
In the media storm that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, nursing home owners Sal and Mabel Mangano were vilified for allegedly causing the deaths of 35 residents of St. Rita’s Nursing Home in low-lying St. Bernard Parish. This book, written by the lawyer who defended them, reveals the gripping, true story behind the couple’s heartrending decision not to evacuate and their persecution at the hands of the government sworn to protect them.
We all know about Florida’s sun, surf, and senior citizen population, but what do we know about its seedy underbelly? It is a fact that Florida’s loophole-laden tax laws and laissez-faire attitude have attracted all kinds of swindlers, from the garden variety con man to criminals as infamous as Al Capone. It is also a fact that Vic Knight knows virtually all there is to know about every one of them.
The history of New Orleans is a street-level story, with names like Iberville, Terpsichore, Gravier, Tchopitoulas, and of course, Bourbon, presenting the city’s past with every step. The late John Churchill Chase eloquently chronicles the origins and development of the most fascinating of American cities in this humorous masterpiece. Hardcover.