Author: Christopher K. Coleman
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781558536616
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.
Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Christopher K. Coleman
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781558536616
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781558536616
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.
A Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Darcy O'Brien
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497658535
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497658535
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
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
Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Willard Rouse Jillson
Publisher:
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Tales of Dark and Bloody Ground ... Papers on the Early History of Kentucky
Author: Willard Rouse Jillson
Publisher:
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Willard Rouse Jillson
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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A Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Edward G. Miller
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller's visits to the battlefield. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account of small-unit action set against the background of the larger command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W. Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller's visits to the battlefield. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account of small-unit action set against the background of the larger command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W. Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.
Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Alex Farnsley
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Richard Blackmon
Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN: 9781594161070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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
Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN: 9781594161070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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
That Dark and Bloody River
Author: Allan W. Eckert
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307790460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307790460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.
Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Thomas Ayres
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.