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Author | : Jon L Gibson |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540249166 |
Archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Poverty Point for decades, piecing together a fascinating picture of a 3,500-year-old hunter-gatherer way of life. But Poverty Point is more than an archaeological treasure-trove. It's also an eerie locus for southeastern native lore. Cold breezes on warm nights stir up spirit foxes and singing locusts. Otherworldly messages find their conduit in the drumming of trees and hooting of owls. Archaeologist and author Jon Gibson unearths the strange narratives that are as much a part of Poverty Point as the artifacts and earthworks themselves.
Author | : Jon L. Gibson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2021-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467149837 |
Archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Poverty Point for decades, piecing together a fascinating picture of a 3,500-year-old hunter-gatherer way of life. But Poverty Point is more than an archaeological treasure-trove. It's also an eerie locus for southeastern native lore. Cold breezes on warm nights stir up spirit foxes and singing locusts. Otherworldly messages find their conduit in the drumming of trees and hooting of owls. Archaeologist and author Jon Gibson unearths the strange narratives that are as much a part of Poverty Point as the artifacts and earthworks themselves.
Author | : R. L. Grandstaff |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Keagan LeJeune |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807162590 |
From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.
Author | : Charles Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Entertainers |
ISBN | : 9780949733139 |
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Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : E. Pauline Johnson |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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"These legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally by my honored friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano, of Vancouver, whom I had the privilege of first meeting in London in 1906, when he visited England and was received at Buckingham Palace by their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. To the fact that I was able to greet Chief Capilano in the Chinook tongue, while we were both many thousands of miles from home, I owe the friendship and the confidence which he so freely gave me when I came to reside on the Pacific coast. These legends he told me from time to time, just as the mood possessed him, and he frequently remarked that they had never been revealed to any other English-speaking person save myself."--Author's pref.
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Northumberland (England) |
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Author | : Barry T. Klein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780915344895 |