Guy Rivers
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781610751759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781610751759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Gilmore Simms
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Based upon the gold rush that had taken place in northern Georgia in the early 1830s and upon the activities of the notorious Pony Club ... [that] specialized in terrorizing luckless settlers and stealing their horses"--Wimsatt, The major fiction of William Gilmore Simms, p. 123.
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781512149272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Guy Rivers" from William Gilmore Simms. Poet, novelist and historian from the American South (1806-1870).
Author: Bruce Stewart
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0813134277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the regionÕs residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented AppalachiaÕs violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the regionÕs rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.