Otto Wood The Bandit

Author : Trevor McKenzie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469664729

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Otto Wood, the Bandit by Trevor McKenzie Pdf

Legions of bluegrass fans know the name Otto Wood (1893–1930) from a ballad made popular by Doc Watson, telling the story of Wood's crimes and violent death. However, few know the history of this Appalachian figure beyond the larger-than-life version heard in song. Trevor McKenzie reconstructs Wood's life, tracing how a Wilkes County juvenile delinquent became a celebrated folk hero. Throughout his short life, Wood was jailed for numerous offenses, stole countless automobiles, lost his left hand, and made eleven escapes from five state penitentiaries, including four from the North Carolina State Prison after a 1923 murder conviction. An early master of controlling his own narrative in the media, Wood appealed to the North Carolina public as a misunderstood, clever antihero. In 1930, after a final jailbreak, police killed Wood in a shootout. The ballad bearing his name first appeared less than a year later. Using reports of Wood's exploits from contemporary newspapers, his self-published autobiography, prison records, and other primary sources, Trevor McKenzie uses this colorful story to offer a new way to understand North Carolina—and arguably the South as a whole—during this era of American history.

Author : John Edward Fletcher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844996

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The True Story of Tom Dooley by John Edward Fletcher Pdf

The crime that shocked post-Civil War America and inspired the folk song that became The Kingston Trio’s hit, “Tom Dooley.” At the conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site of the nation’s first nationally publicized crime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and a mysterious chain of events, Tom Dooley was tried, convicted and hanged for the murder of Laura Foster. This notorious crime became an inspiration for musicians, writers and storytellers ever since, creating a mystery of mythic proportions. Through newspaper articles, trial documents and public records, Dr. John E. Fletcher brings this dramatic case to life, providing the long-awaited factual account of the legendary murder. Join the investigation into one of the country’s most enduring thrillers. “Fletcher has spent a great deal of time researching almost all of the characters involved with the Foster homicide and has gone further than any researcher I know in establishing the relationships—blood, marriage and social—between the major actors in the tragedy.”—Statesville Record & Landmark

Author : Otto Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648585345

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The Life History of Otto Wood by Otto Wood Pdf

Otto Wood (1894 - 1930) was a well known escape artist and con man from Wilkes County, North Carolina. He began his life of crime at a very young age, stealing a bicycle from a boy. But he was quickly caught and spent time in jail. From there he would get to know the law very well. In 1930 he died on the streets of Salisbury during a gunfight with the police.

Author : Wayne Erbsen
Publisher : Native Ground Books & Music
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781883206673

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Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus! by Wayne Erbsen Pdf

Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.

Author : Carlo Collodi
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402745812

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Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Pdf

An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II by Maurer Maurer Pdf

Author : Otto DeFay
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0312383126

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The Man Book by Otto DeFay Pdf

"The Man Book" is an essential life-skills handbook--a manual for everything a modern man needs to know, such as Things Never to Say During Sex, Hottest Animated Women, Fly Fishing, and much more.

Author : Fred Fussell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000087938944

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Blue Ridge Music Trails by Fred Fussell Pdf

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.

Author : Toby Harnden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 034098094X

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Bandit Country by Toby Harnden Pdf

South Armagh was firstdescribed as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland's Secretary of State, and for nearly three decades it has been the most dangerous posting in the world for soldiers. Toby Harnden has stripped away the myth and propaganda associated with South Armagh to produce one of the most compelling and important books of the subject. Drawing on secret documents and interviews in South Armagh s recent history, he tells the inside story of how the IRA came close to bringing the British state to its knees. For the first time, the identities of the men behind the South Quay and Manchester bombings are revealed. Packed with new information, "Bandit Country" penetrates the IRA and the security forces in South Armagh."

Author : Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469610795

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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina by Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier Pdf

African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307800558

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Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung Pdf

The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.

Author : Emeric Pressburger
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571371051

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The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions) by Emeric Pressburger Pdf

For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn and narrated on audio by Mark Gatiss. 'Stunning: incredibly good, thought-provoking and tense.' Ian Rankin 'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish.' Sarah Waters 'An outstanding novel: gripping, tense and darkly unsettling.' Jonathan Freedland 'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd 'One of the best London novels of the 20th century.' Benjamin Myers Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ... London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse . 'A haunting, remarkable novel, as startlingly original as any of Pressburger's films.' Nicola Upson 'A dark and harrowing window on the past: the ending will haunt your dreams.' Janice Hallett

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612105543

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The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf

A young american is mistaken for a mad king and the adventure begins! A story of action and intrigue and a noble hero!

Author : Andrew Moore
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781603585972

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Pawpaw by Andrew Moore Pdf

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic grower’s dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive, and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one? In Pawpaw—a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature category—author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello; canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit’s own “Johnny Pawpawseed”), but also regular folks who remember eating them in the woods as kids, but haven’t had one in over fifty years. As much as Pawpaw is a compendium of pawpaw knowledge, it also plumbs deeper questions about American foodways—how economic, biologic, and cultural forces combine, leading us to eat what we eat, and sometimes to ignore the incredible, delicious food growing all around us. If you haven’t yet eaten a pawpaw, this book won’t let you rest until you do.

Author : Daniel S. Pierce
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0807895725

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Real NASCAR by Daniel S. Pierce Pdf

In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.