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  • The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia: Fierce and Furious

    par Larry Wood ...
    Collections series Civil War Series
    Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antietam, where over thirty-five hundred soldiers were killed in a single day, and Gettysburg, where twice that number died in three days of fighting, such smaller engagements were just as important to the men who lived through them. The ones who didn't were just as dead, and for a brief time at least, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri

    par Larry Wood ...
    Killing is by no means a man's game in Missouri Bonnie Parker has been romanticized in print and on screen since the early 1930s, when she and gangster boyfriend Clyde Barrow robbed banks and left bodies in their wake. She's undoubtedly the most infamous murderous woman in Missouri history—although it's uncertain whether she killed anyone with her own hand—but she's in a crowded field of Show Me ... En savoir plus

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Northeast Oklahoma

    par Larry Wood ...
    During the 1800s, when northeast Oklahoma was part of Indian Territory, many fugitives from US justice, like Henry Starr and Cherokee Bill, sought refuge in its hills and hollows. Statehood in 1907 did little to tame the area. Northeast Oklahoma remained a hideout for outlaws into the gangster era of the 1930s, when one of the biggest manhunts in history failed to flush Pretty Boy Floyd from the ... En savoir plus

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  • Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri

    par Larry Wood ...
    Collections series Civil War Series
    Women at WarAlthough war was traditionally the purview of men, the realities of America's Civil War often brought women into the conflict. They served as nurses, sutlers, and washerwomen. Some even disguised themselves as men and joined the fight on the battlefield. In the border state of Missouri, where Southern sympathies ran deep, women sometimes clashed with occupying Union forces because of ... En savoir plus

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  • Desperadoes of the Ozarks

    par Larry Wood ...
    The award-winning author of The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia "mine[s] the rich vein of bad men—and succeeds because of solid research." —Fred Pfitser, editor, Ozarks MountaineerThis 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Wicked Joplin

    par Larry Wood ...
    A strange sort of pride tends to embellish infamy, like the notion that Frank and Jesse James robbed every bank in Missouri. But the citizens of Joplin need not exaggerate their community's unsavory past. Founded in the 1870s as a booming lead-mining camp, Joplin was a wide-open town from the start, and its wild reputation persisted into the mid-twentieth century. A neighboring town's newspaper ... En savoir plus

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  • Ozarks Gunfights and Other Notorious Incidents

    par Larry Wood ...
    In Ozarks Gunfights and Other Notorious Incidents, award-winning author Larry Wood shares true stories about the region's infamous history.The battle between the Blue and Gray had ended, but the Ozarks were still witnessing a war. Divided loyalties gave rise to rampant lawlessness and debauchery, plaguing this region with robberies, shootouts, and showdowns. In twenty-five compelling chapters, ... En savoir plus

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  • Wicked Women of Missouri

    par Larry Wood ...
    True stories of Ma Barker, Belle Starr, Bonnie Parker, and other historical female desperadoes of the Midwest . . . Includes photos.Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State," but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts . . .Belle "Queen of the Bandits" Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime ... En savoir plus

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  • Wicked Springfield, Missouri

    The Seamy Side of the Queen City

    par Larry Wood ...
    From its founding in the early 1830s, Springfield was a rough frontier town where whiskey flowed freely, gunplay and fistfights abounded and gambling thrived. The Civil War not only brought the horror of warfare home to Springfield but also introduced worldly vices like prostitution that were scarcely known in previous years. Yet throughout its history, Springfield has managed to maintain a veneer ... En savoir plus

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  • The Siege of Lexington, Missouri

    The Battle of the Hemp Bales

    par Larry Wood ...
    Collections series Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
    Following victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Missouri State Guard achieved its greatest success when it advanced on Lexington in September. Former Missouri governor General Sterling Price and his men laid siege for three days against a Union garrison under the command of Colonel James Mulligan. An ingenious mobile breastwork of hemp bales soaked ... En savoir plus

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Missouri

    par Larry Wood ...
    Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides ... En savoir plus

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  • Civil War Springfield

    par Larry Wood ...
    An account of Springfield, Missouri, population 1,500—and the epic struggle between the Union and Confederacy to control it.During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughout the early part of the war to occupy its strategic position. The Federal ... En savoir plus

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