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Title: The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the Natchez (Shawnee Classics) by Otto A. Rothert, Robert Clark ISBN: 0-8093-2034-7 Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Summary: Outlaws of the Early West
Comment: This book tells the story of the outlaws of the early West (western Kentucky, southeastern Illinois, and Tennessee from around 1795 to 1820). These men were not the gun-toting, bank-robbing criminals of the Wild West but were highway robbers and river pirates who most often wielded knives and axes. They preyed on pioneers living in isolated cabins in the wilderness and on traders coming down the Ohio River on flatboats or traveling inland along wilderness trails.
Most of these criminals at one time or another used Cave-in-Rock as their headquarters. This huge cave, on the Illinois side of the lower Ohio River, is about 85 miles below Evansville, Indiana.
The most notorious of all the criminals of this time and place were the two Harpe brothers, who were said to kill men, women, and children simply to gratify a lust for cruelty. One story epitomizes the brutality of their exploits: Traveling through western Kentucky, the Harpes came to a cabin, where they found only a mother and her baby, the husband being off hunting. They asked to spend the night, and the next morning they asked the woman to prepare breakfast for them. She consented to do so but said that it would take her some time because her child was not well and she had no one to nurse it. The men then said that she should put the baby in its cradle and they would rock it while she cooked. After the woman had served their breakfast, she went to the cradle to see if the child was asleep, expressing some astonishment that her child should remain quiet for so long a time. She found the infant lying breathless, its throat cut from ear to ear.
"Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock" was first published in 1923 and was recently reprinted by Southern Illinois University Press. Historians, amateur and professional, will value this book interesting for the light it sheds on a period of the nation's history that has received too little attention.
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Title: A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger by Gary Deneal, Jim Ballowe ISBN: 080932217X Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness (Prairie State Books) by Paul M. Angle, John Y. Simon ISBN: 0252062337 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore ISBN: 0446532231 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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