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Jesse's turn to crime after the end of the Civil War helped cement his place in American history as a simple but remarkably effective bandit. Displaced by reconstruction, the antebellum political leadership mythologized Jesse's exploits. During the time before and after his death, he became the subject of dime novels, which set him up as pre-industrial models of resistance. During the populist and progressive eras, was when Jesse became a symb...

1898-THE MEN of Heaven, Arkansas, committed a lunacy so evil. It opened a gate for a demon fromhell. Th e demon established its Kingdom in the vast swamp bottom to the north of town and commanded the wild Swine to host the spirits of the dead. The evil that permeated the swamp touched the hearts of the townspeople like a contagious disease. For eighty-seven years the town grew-and the wanton immorality, larcenous and covetousness grew with it....

An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person. Biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, an autobiography, however, may be based entirely on the writer's memory. Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir. Memoirs are constructed from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writers entire life s...

In the spring of 1865, the war had ended, the president had been assassinated, reconstruction had began before the war ended and the border country of north and south was in a state of chaotic turmoil. Factions from both sides of the war had their lives up-heaved and destroyed beyond repair. Esau Jones was one of such men. He was only a teen-age boy when he rode as a renegade bushwhacker with William Quantrill causing havoc with Union sympathi...

A Clandestine League of Rebel Insurrectionist, commanded by Confederate Captain Franklin Dunbar, known only as Captain Frank, steal a rail shipment of U.S. freshly minted gold coins, in an elaborate scheme of re-minting the gold as private money to be used exclusively for the sole purpose of over-throwing the goverments Radical Republicans Reconstruction program in the years following the American Civil War, and reinstating Southern politician...

You spend a mind tingling two weeks living the rigorous enforcement of the law and the tedious sometimes futile investigations as you get to know the officers who serve and protect the citizens of a crime ridden city. You will witness the ever growing immorality of pedophilia. You see a deranged hematomanian take his blood lust. You will visit the mind of a serial killer and learn why he kills. You tag along with a schizophrenic psychopath on ...

Diamonds! Diamonds!" The cry heard around the world that changed the destiny of Dallas Warbuck, the most famed bounty hunter of all time. 1906, Southern Arkansas. A small wagon train of God fearing dirt farmers on their way to California in search of homestead land are stranded in the midst of a tumultuous diamond rush. A blossoming romance developed when Warbuck met farmer Will's daughter. The situation that evolved between a love smitten bou...

Beware the curse of El Tejano!" "If anyone shall find the gold and not take it all... He shall suffer the Curse of El Tejano!" "The hangman placed the noose over his head... "Remember, take it all or none!" One hundred years later, in the Cerro del Gato, high up on Cat Mountain, a troop of Webelo scouts on an overnight camping trip accident found the treasure of the famed stagecoach bandit, El Tejano, and fell to the lot of his ghostly curse, ...