On Dark And Bloody Ground

Author : Anne T. Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952271083
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Dark and Bloody Ground written by Anne T. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oral histories with participants in and observers of the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and 1930s, supplemented with introductory material, maps, and photographs"--

Author : Darcy O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497658535
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dark and Bloody Ground written by Darcy O'Brien and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime. The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews). “An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly “The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating portrait of the mountain way of life and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal

Author : Richard Blackmon
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781594161070
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark and Bloody Ground written by Richard Blackmon and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a thorough history of an often-neglected part of the American Revolution, the battles among American Indians, Loyalists and colonial soldiers in the Southern Colonies

Author : Michael Willever
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496913396
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dark and Bloody Ground written by Michael Willever and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SAGA CONTINUESPerryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. The small town of just under 400 residents has the notable distinction of unwittingly hosting the largest battle ever fought in the State of Kentucky. From before sunrise until well after dark 70,000 soldiers waged war, smashed homes, dismantled fences, trampled crops, shattering the trees and killing one another wholesale. The struggle was, according to one Southern general who was there, the severest and most desperately contested engagement to my knowledge. The reader witnesses this historic carnage through the eyes of eleven different protagonists, both Northern and Southern, both infamous and common. From Brigadier General Phil Sheridan to Private George Kilpatrick and from Brigadier General Pat Cleburne to Private Sam Watkins, the Battle of Perryville is revealed and revered in this strikingly particular fictional narrative.

Author : Thomas Ayres
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark and Bloody Ground written by Thomas Ayres and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.

Author : John Filson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke written by John Filson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darcy O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dark and Bloody Ground written by Darcy O'Brien and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1c 1999 Gift.

Author : Roberta Webb
Publisher : Turnkey Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933538082
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark and Bloody Ground written by Roberta Webb and published by Turnkey Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populated with colorful characters, this sweeping saga of Kentucky history from early pioneer days to the mid 1900s follows five generations who strive to create a paradise in the Big Sandy Valley that had been heralded as the world's greatest, raw resources area.

Author : Earle Robert Forrest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arizona's Dark and Bloody Ground written by Earle Robert Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walt Coburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark and Bloody Ground written by Walt Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: