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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10080326318X
ISBN-139780803263185
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038697682
Product Key Features
Book TitleOutlaw Years : the History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace
Number of Pages338 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, General
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorRobert M. Coates
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-031811
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal976.02
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe 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, and the 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.
LC Classification NumberF396.C65 1986
