A Dark And Bloody Ground

Author : Darcy O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781497658530

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A Dark and Bloody Ground by Darcy O'Brien Pdf

An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime. The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews). “An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly “The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating portrait of the mountain way of life and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal

Author : Richard Blackmon
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1594161070

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Dark and Bloody Ground by Richard Blackmon Pdf

Offers a thorough history of an often-neglected part of the American Revolution, the battles among American Indians, Loyalists and colonial soldiers in the Southern Colonies

Author : Edward G. Miller
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1585442585

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A Dark and Bloody Ground by Edward G. Miller Pdf

The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller's visits to the battlefield. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account of small-unit action set against the background of the larger command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W. Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.

Author : Michael R. Phelps,Michael Willever
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449079680

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A Dark and Bloody Ground by Michael R. Phelps,Michael Willever Pdf

A Dark and Bloody Ground: Sowing the Wind, chronicles the week of October 4 - 7, 1862, when the State of Kentucky lay in the balance as vast foraging armies swept the country side; soldiers from the North and from the South fighting and dying, staining Kentuckys soil with their blood. The reader witnesses these events through the eyes of seven protagonists, four Southern and three Northern. This novel for the first time brings to life such historical figures as George Thomas, Leonidas Polk, Phil Sheridan and Patrick Cleburne, to name but a few. The events of this week changed the lives of these men and the State of Kentucky forever! Kurt Holman, manager of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site says, I really like this! Its much more fun than The Killer Angels. Its a real page turner. It puts you right there.

Author : Anne T. Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 1952271088

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On Dark and Bloody Ground by Anne T. Lawrence Pdf

"Oral histories with participants in and observers of the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and 1930s, supplemented with introductory material, maps, and photographs"--

Author : Christopher K. Coleman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1558536612

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Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Christopher K. Coleman Pdf

Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.

Author : Thomas Ayres
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004593264

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Dark and Bloody Ground by Thomas Ayres Pdf

This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307790460

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That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Author : Tony Clunn
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210088

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The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions by Tony Clunn Pdf

The story of an ancient ambush that devastated Rome—and the modern-day hunt that finally revealed its location and its archaeological treasures. In 9 A.D., the seventeenth, eighteenth, & nineteenth Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius—a Roman-trained German warrior adopted and subsequently knighted by the Romans, but determined to stop Rome’s advance east beyond the Rhine River. By the time it was over, some 25,000 men, women, and children were dead and the course of European history had been forever altered. “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Emperor Augustus agonized aloud when he learned of the devastating loss. As decades passed, the location of the Varus defeat, one of the Western world’s most important battlefields, was lost to history. It remained so for two millennia. Fueled by an unshakable curiosity and burning interest in the story, a British Major named J. A. S. (Tony) Clunn delved into the nooks and crannies of times past. By sheer persistence and good luck, he turned the foundation of German national history on its ear. Convinced the running battle took place north of Osnabruck, Germany, Clunn set out to prove his point. His discovery of large numbers of Roman coins in the late 1980s, followed by a flood of thousands of other artifacts (including weapons and human remains), ended the mystery once and for all. Archaeologists and historians across the world agreed. Today, a state-of-the-art museum houses and interprets these priceless historical treasures on the very site Varus’s legions were lost. The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions is a masterful retelling of Clunn’s search to discover the Varus battlefield. His well-paced and vivid writing style makes for a compelling read as he alternates between his incredible modern quest and the ancient tale of the Roman occupation of Germany—based upon actual finds from the battlefield—that ultimately ended so tragically in the peat bogs of Kalkriese.

Author : William Van Meter
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1416538690

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Bluegrass by William Van Meter Pdf

A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart—the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters. Katie Autry was a foster child from a tiny village in Kentucky; a little awkward, but always with the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, majoring in the dental program. She worked days at the smoothie shop, nights at the local strip club, and fell in love with a football player who wouldn’t date her. On the morning of May 4, 2003, Katie Autry was raped, stabbed, sprayed with hairspray, and set on fire in her own dormitory room. In telling the true story of this shocking crime, William Van Meter describes the devastation of not one but three families. Two young men are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high school dropout, at the scene; and Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and a history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from dirt-poor to millionaire, responds to the horror. With the keen eye of a talented young journalist returning to his southern roots, Van Meter paints a vivid portrait of the town, the characters who fill it, and the simmering class conflicts that made an injustice like this not only possible, but inevitable. Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Bluegrass is redolent with atmosphere, dark tension, and lush landscapes.

Author : Roberta Webb
Publisher : Turnkey Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1933538082

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The Dark and Bloody Ground by Roberta Webb Pdf

Populated with colorful characters, this sweeping saga of Kentucky history from early pioneer days to the mid 1900s follows five generations who strive to create a paradise in the Big Sandy Valley that had been heralded as the world's greatest, raw resources area.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061833762

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The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, comes the fourth installment in The Starbuck Chronicles, an exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battle field. It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America. Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.

Author : John Filson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : LCCN:82204226

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The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke by John Filson Pdf

Author : Darcy O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781497658653

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Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: The “fascinating” true story of John Dale Cavaness, a much-admired Illinois doctor—and the cold-blooded killer of his own son (The Washington Post). Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator, author Darcy O’Brien unfolds the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois physician and surgeon charged with the murder of his son Sean in December 1984. Outraged by the arrest of the skilled medical practitioner who selflessly attended to their needs, the people of Little Egypt, as the natives call their region, rose to his defense. But during the subsequent trial, a radically different, disquieting portrait of Dr. Cavaness would emerge. Throughout the three decades that he enjoyed the admiration and respect of his community, Cavaness was privately terrorizing his family, abusing his employees, and making disastrous financial investments. As more and more grisly details of the Cavaness case come to stark Midwestern light in O’Brien’s chilling account, so too does the hidden gothic underside of rural America and its heritage of violence and blood. “A meticulous account . . . An implicit indictment of a culture that condones and encourages violent behavior in men.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating story, and Darcy O’Brien does a great job of structuring it for suspense.” —The Washington Post “Riveting.”—Publishers Weekly “A terrifying story of family violence and the community that honored the perpetrator.” —Kirkus Reviews “Stunning material . . . Handled with justice and fastidiousness by a natural storyteller.” —Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize

Author : Constance Lindsay Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118161434

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Pioneers of the Old Southwest by Constance Lindsay Skinner Pdf