The Outlaw Years

1986-01-01 History

Author : Robert M. Coates
Release : 1986-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 185/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Outlaw Years written by Robert M. Coates. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travelers--traders, settlers, andøthe occasional war party or fugitive from justice--followed its course from the Appalachians to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez. In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both history and legend for startling tales of the near-mythical thieves, cutthroats, and confidence men once reported to have stalked their unsuspecting victims along this frontier trail--the terrible Harpe brothers, who came to a satisfactorily bad end; Samuel Mason, a thief done in by other thieves; and John Murrell, whose reputed schemes threw the South into a paroxysm of fear. Robert M. Coates retells the stories of these and other "land pirates" in chilling and ominous detail, preserving for us the tales once whispered on the edges of the dark southern woods nearly two centuries ago.

The Outlaw Years

2010-09-23 History

Author : Robert Coates
Release : 2010-09-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 011/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Outlaw Years written by Robert Coates. This book was released on 2010-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years just before 1880 until about 1885 are considered the "outlaw years," when lawlessness developed a law of its own and planned an empire. Operating along the Natchez Trace, an overland trading and postal-rider route that in places was barely a trail, the outlaws preyed upon the traffic along this line. Their plans were laid in the dives under the bluffs of the river towns--Natchez and Vicksburg and as far south as New Orleans. By far the bloodiest were the Harpes, who were capable of spectacular murders solely to amuse their comrades. Another gang of outlaws under John Murrell even threatened national stability for a time in his plot to steal slaves and organize insurrection in order to disorganize the government and establish his own state. This conspiracy was discovered and defeated by a store clerk who joined the outlaws and lived several perilous months among them. He was almost hung by Murrell's secret partisans among the "respectable" elements. After the overthrow of the "outlaw empire" in 1885, the scene shifted: the frontier advanced; outlaw violence changed its forms, but it never again reached the terrible and magnificent range of the "outlaw years."

The Outlaw Ocean

2019-08-20 Travel

Author : Ian Urbina
Release : 2019-08-20
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Outlaw Ocean written by Ian Urbina. This book was released on 2019-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

The Outlaw Years

1945* Brigands and robbers

Author : Robert Myron Coates
Release : 1945*
Genre : Brigands and robbers
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Download or read book The Outlaw Years written by Robert Myron Coates. This book was released on 1945*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outlaw Trail

1978 History

Author : Robert Redford
Release : 1978
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Outlaw Trail written by Robert Redford. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through time.

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