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Author | : J. D. Hardin |
Publisher | : Berkley Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425120972 |
Junction City's most affluent citizen has been shot dead, and no one is talking--except the woman who is about to hang for the crime. And if Junction City has its way, Beulah French won't have a chance to spill the story before she is swinging from a tree.
Author | : Jack Shuler |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610391373 |
The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 "noose incidents" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.
Author | : Syd Dernley |
Publisher | : Trans-Atlantic Publications |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 9780330316330 |
Author | : Dale Graham |
Publisher | : Robert Hale Ltd |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0719821134 |
When Crado Bluestone buys some cattle to start his own branch, he figures that life can't get much better. It comes as a brutal shock, then, when he is accused of being a rustler and is made to take the Hangman's Reach. The real cattle thieves, led by a killer named Monk Purvis, leave him for dead. Help is close at hand, however, in the form of a Texas Ranger. Jack Banner has been tracking the gang and rescues the hapless cowboy just before he chokes to death at the end of the rope. Revenge burns deep in Bluestone's heart to even the score and much blood will be split before he finally catches up with the ruthless killer in a Mexican graveyard.
Author | : Dale Arenson |
Publisher | : Hangmen Motorcycle Club |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-04 |
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Take a thrill-packed ride with the outlaw bikers of the Hangmen Motorcycle Club during the wild days of the '60s and '70s, and experience what it feels like to live on the edge. When 15-year-old Dale drops out of school, he's not sure if he wants to be a Marine or a biker. Neither of them pays well, but both fulfill his need for adventure and excitement. As soon as he gets his first Harley, the decision comes easily and the young man falls into the dangerous life of a 1% outlaw biker in Southern California. For almost a decade, Hangmen Motorcycle Club becomes his family, and passionate yet kind-hearted Dale experiences true brotherhood with this extraordinary group of men. Caught up in gang brawls, run-ins with the law, partying and some romance, there is never a dull moment in his day. Perennial values such as honor, loyalty, and freedom also become part of his life. For Hangmen Motorcycle Club-a modern version of the gunfighters of the Old West-is all about living life to the fullest as free spirits, preserving one's liberties, and protecting one's kin. With hundreds of raving reviews, Hangmen is a page-turner to be enjoyed from beginning to end whether or not you are a biker. It is packed with unexpected twists and turns and the author's sense of humor brightens up even the bleakest situations. Ultimately, Hangmen is a book about humanity and probably the most authentic and raw immersion in the motorcycle club subculture of the '60s and '70s.
Author | : Don Jensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
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Author | : Matt Braun |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2002-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429902167 |
"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton In a place called No Man's Land Texas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke Starbuck for his loyalty and toughness gained by riding with Rip Ford's Texas volunteers. But when Langham sent Starbuck after a band of horse thieves, a loyal man left behind the only home he had ever known-and met the stranger in himself. One man found a home... To track down a thief, Starbuck posed as an outlaw, misled his woman, and killed to protect his own life. Then he rode into a kingdom of vicious horse thieves and entered into a fierce duel with a criminal mastermind hiding behind a respectable life. Somewhere along the line, honest, hardworking Starbuck discovered that he was a changed man-one who had forged himself a freedom and a future in a place where other men died... "BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
Author | : Oliver Pötzsch |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 054774501X |
Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.
Author | : Ambrose Bierce |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Cole Shelton |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
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