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  • Wicked Decatur

    af Troy Taylor ...
    Serier serie Wicked
    In 1854, Decatur was nicknamed "Hell's Half Acre."? By the 1910s and 1920s, the town was referred to as the "Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois, "? gaining notoriety as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling and political corruption were common. Members of the Decatur police force, like Troy Taylor's great-grandfather, were hard-pressed to bar the door against ... Læs mere

    83,29 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Northern Illinois

    The Dark Side of the Prairie State

    af Troy Taylor ...
    Serier serie Wicked
    From the secrets of Joliet Penitentiary to the ferocious gunfights between the Ku Klux Klan and the Shelton Gang, Troy Taylor takes the measure of the dishonest sweat and innocent blood poured into the prairies of Northern Illinois. Meet the "fallen angels" of Decatur's red-light district, the Springfield counterfeiters who bungled stealing Lincoln's bones and the Aurora man who propped up his ... Læs mere

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  • Blood at the Root

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  • Lincoln's Grave Robbers (Scholastic Focus)

    A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover.The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to prison, members of his counterfeiting ... Læs mere

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  • Wicked New Orleans

    The Dark Side of the Big Easy

    af Troy Taylor ...
    The author of Haunted New Orleans digs up NOLA's long and lawless history—from pirates and prostitutes to mobsters and murderers.Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds, and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of ... Læs mere

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  • Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

    Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2

    Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified ... Læs mere

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon

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  • Pretty Boy

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