Author: Phyllis Brown Publisher: Publish America ISBN: 9781588510587 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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"Why did Pa have to die?" What Pa was involved in had been handed down from generation to generation. The Hill's and the Evans' had fought over land and squabbled over money for years - taking each other to court, putting up unseen boundaries on land to keep each other out. Mary Hill didn't understand everything about the feud. She knew that Uncle Jesse was shot and killed two years ago, but was really too young to grasp what had happened. So young, and so familiar with sorrow, Mary struggles to keep her family together in the midst of a bitter and violent feud. Just fifteen years old, she is thrust into the role of mother to her twelve siblings, fearful that, with the coming of each new day, a new tragedy will strike. By escaping Garrard County, Mary may be able to save her family from further bloodshed, but can she get them all out in time?
Author: J. J. Thompson Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230458038 Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EVENTS OF BEDSTER'S DEATH CHAPTER XI. Hills receive a hired recruit from Washington county -- Dr. Hill's pretended desire to end the Fend -- The Grand Jury indicts a number of the Hills -- The Court grants them bail --The Evans boys go out to enlist help --Policy and conduct of the Evans party changed -- The Evans boys go over the river, and on their return meet Bedster and Jim Hill -- They kill Bedster and wound Hill -- Contrast between the Hill and Evans parties -- The Evans boys tried and acquitted before two justices of the peace -- Hills scour the county -- Citizens in danger -- Public meeting -- Dr. Evans proposes to stipulate -- Arbitrators chosen, but fail to restore peace -- Grand Jury indicts the Evans boys -- Joe Murphy's stratagem -- The trial delayed -- The sheriff detains the boys --The stratagem of the Hills to kill the Doctor fails -- Hills attack the Evan's party and kill Jesse May -- The Court orders the capture of Dr. Hill and Joe Murphy--The Evans boys put in jail -- Dr. Hill and Murphy's trial delayed till they run away -- The Governor offers $200 reward for them--Dr. Evans's little son shoots a Hill -- Murphy captured and lodged in jail -- Mrs. Bus Hill appears again -- Hills disperse -- The Evans boys have fine sport in jail -- The Governor places a strong guard around the jail -- The Evans boys tried and acquitted for the murder of Bedster. Not long after the Scott's Fork tragedy, Dr. Hill received a supply of new troops, from Washington county, known as the Washington troops, or Washington recruits. They were a set of low-bred fellows, loafers, and rioters by profession at home, and hired to fight at fifteen dollars per month, with a standing reward of five dollars extra for a scalp of the Evans party. One...
Author: Keven McQueen Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253057507 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 184
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Kentucky—land of bluegrass, horse racing, bourbon, and . . . murder. In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp—a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren—and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes the story of a family terrorized by an arsonist who massacred eleven of their members and burned the property of even more, the tale of a husband and wife found shot in each other's arms with a life-sized photo of another man between them, and many more deaths that made headlines. Meticulously researched and written with McQueen's trademark humor, Murder in Old Kentucky will captivate any fan of true crime or Kentucky history.
Author: Matthew Schoenbachler Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813173590 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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The “Kentucky Tragedy” was early America’s best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp—fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country’s most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder—committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave—into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel’s revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.
Author: T.R.C. Hutton Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813142431 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 446
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This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In turn, the types of violence recorded there corresponded with discernible political scenarios.
Author: Phyllis Brown
Author: Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville)
Author: Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville)
Author: J. J. Thompson
Author: J. J. Thompson
Author: Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville)
Author: Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville)
Author: Keven McQueen
Author: Matthew Schoenbachler
Author: T.R.C. Hutton