More Tales behind the Tombstones

More Tales behind the Tombstones
Title More Tales behind the Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Chris Enss
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 193
Release 2015-07-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1493017888

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More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the stories behind these legendary characters and visit the sites of tombs long forgotten while legends have lived on. Read about the lives (and deaths) of fearless, famous lawmen such as Bass Reeves, Chalk Beeson, Bill Tilghman, and Pat Garrett; learn about the dauntless women who blazed new paths for their sex in medicine, journalism, entertainment, and voting rights; and discover the intriguing facts and myths that continue to circulate about these and other infamous characters long after their grave markers have become worn down or simply lost to time.

Tales Behind the Tombstones

Tales Behind the Tombstones
Title Tales Behind the Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Chris Enss
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 225
Release 2007-07-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 076275186X

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Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the story behind Calamity Jane's wish to be buried next to Wild Bill Hickok, discover how and where the Earp brothers came to be buried, and visit the sites of tombs long forgotten while legends have lived on.

Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery

Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery
Title Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery PDF eBook
Author June Hadden Hobbs
Publisher McFarland
Pages 215
Release 2021-11-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1476686386

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This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.

Tombstones

Tombstones
Title Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Lederman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 342
Release 1992-03-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780374278458

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In Wall Street lingo, tombstones are the black-bordered newspaper notices of corporate mergers. Lederman, who created the recapitalization technique while a partner at Wachtell Lipton, presents richly detailed stories from the takeover wars of the 1980's, informed by his intimate knowledge of the strategies and personalities involved.

The Lady and the Mountain Man

The Lady and the Mountain Man
Title The Lady and the Mountain Man PDF eBook
Author Chris Enss
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 215
Release 2021-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 1493045938

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**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs** The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together. Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected. This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Walk Among the Tombstones

Walk Among the Tombstones
Title Walk Among the Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Block
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 388
Release 2009-03-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0061760315

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Tombstone Tea

Tombstone Tea
Title Tombstone Tea PDF eBook
Author Joanne Dahme
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 202
Release 2010-06-29
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 145877970X

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In order to be accepted by the ''in crowd'' at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jamie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jamie quickly discovers that they aren't actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jamie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery. Full of rich history and filled with a cast of ghostly characters, the third eerily descriptive novel from Joanne Dahme is just as creepy as her first novel Creepers.