The Life And Crimes Of Railroad Bill
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The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill
Author | : Larry L. Massey |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813059440 |
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For over a year, Railroad Bill eluded sheriffs, private detectives hired by the L&N line, and bounty hunters who traveled across the country to match guns with the legendary desperado. The African American outlaw was wanted on multiple charges of robbery and murder, and rumor had it that he stole from the rich to give to the poor. He terrorized busy train lines from east of Mobile to the Florida Panhandle, but as soon as the lawmen got close, he disappeared into the bayous and pine forests--until one day his luck ran out, and he was gunned down inside a general store in Atmore, Alabama. Little is known about Railroad Bill before his infamy--not his real name or his origins. His first recorded crime, carrying a repeating rifle without a license, led him into a gunfight with a deputy and made him a wanted man throughout Florida in 1894. His most celebrated escape--a five-day foot chase with scores of men and several bloodhounds--led to tales of Railroad's supernatural ability to transmogrify into an animal or inanimate object at will. As his crimes progressed from robbing boxcars to wounding trainmen to murdering sheriffs, more and more reward money was offered for his capture--dead or alive. Today, Railroad Bill is the subject of many folk songs popularized by singers such as Paul McCartney, Taj Mahal, Gillian Welch, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. But who was he? Where did he come from? What events led to his murderous spree? And why did some view him as a hero? In Railroad Bill, Larry Massey separates fact from myth and teases out elusive truths from tall tales to ultimately reveal the man behind the bandit's mask.
Hold It Real Still
Author | : Lawrence P. Jackson |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2022-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421444130 |
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"The author examines actor Clint Eastwood's influence on the Western film as a genre, as well as how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism"--
Vagabonds Tramps and Hobos
Author | : Owen Clayton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009348072 |
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The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Eerie Alabama Chilling Tales from the Heart of Dixie
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781467141673 |
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Known for antebellum mansions and sunny beaches, Alabama also claims an abundance of fascinating mysteries and legends. The White Thang is a Sasquatch-like creature that has terrorized Alabamians for generations. For a brief period in the 1980s, Needham gained national attention because of its "crying pecan tree." In 1854, a farmer named Orion Williamson simply vanished in a field in Selma. From the aquatic beast known as the Coosa River Monster to the story of the Leprechaun of Mobile, these stories have evolved over generations. Author Alan Brown presents some of the strangest stories from this collective tradition.
Gangsters Swindlers Killers and Thieves
Author | : Lawrence Block |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2004-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195169522 |
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This collection surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters from colonial times up through the twentieth century.
The Sherman Railroad Bill and Kindred Bills
Author | : Vindex,John Sherman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Railroads and state |
ISBN | : OCLC:229409487 |
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The Congressional Globe
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : CHI:23233114 |
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Index to the Congressional Globe for the second session forty second congress
Author | : J. Rives,George A. Biley |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368171216 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.