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Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
MetroWest is known for its rolling farmland, winding rivers and quaint white churches facing green town commons. But looks can be deceiving. Tales from these small towns captured headlines and shocked readers across the state with lurid details of betrayal, cruelty, greed and murder. Nina Danforth, spurred on by love and jealousy, made a midnight call to the home of Andrew Emery in Framingham seeking revenge. The murder of spinster Mabel Page in Weston sent a man to the electric chair, and forty years before Lizzie Borden, the grisly axe murder of a husband and wife sent shock waves through the terrified town of Natick. Authors James L. Parr and Kevin A. Swope reveal the stories behind these crimes and the motives of the desperate criminals who perpetrated them.
Ira W. Barker was born probably born in Massachusetts, ca. 1805. His His wife, Nancy, was born ca. 1810 in Tennessee. They were married and living in Marion County, Alabama, by 1825, when their first child was born. They had eleven children, 1825-1849, all born in in Marion County. He purchased land in Itawamba County, Mississippi, in 1850, and probably died there ca. 1852. Nancy Barker was living with a son in Sanford (Lamar) County, Alabama, in 1870. She probably died there before 1880. Descendants listed lived in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, throughout the United States and elsewhere.
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This is a collection of 10 short stories that range in genre from Sci-fi to Horror to Fantasy as well as Humor and Adventure. The book starts with The Billiard Ball killer, a story about 2 detectives hunting a serial killer. Then there’s chapter 3 The Sumerican Love Gang, about a cult that has been planting nuclear devices in the plumping of every major city. This is a back pocket book. It’s a book you could take to the beach or on a hunting trip with friends.
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Title: Beyond Life: The Ghost Chronicles Beyond Life: The Ghost Chronicles is a book of fictional tales that allows the reader to gather the perspectve of what ghosts may experience in their afterlife. All the tales are loosely based on experiences by both authors with ghosts during their paranormal research over many, many years. Every tale wrote about in these fictional tales of ghosts and their afterlife are imagined in a "what if" and "could this be true" situation of strange and exciting twists and turns that leaves the reader wondering what is around the next corner or on the next page for the characters of each story. Each story comes from the minds and imaginations of Daniel Norvell and Sandra Wells in regards to several theories used today in mainstream paranormal research. The reader will find themselves enthralled with every page wondering if these ghosts will find a happy end to their earthbound tragedies or a continuing hell on earth full of loneliness, torment and despair.
Includes sect. "A survey of literature on the manufacture and properties of iron and steel, and kindred subjects" (title varies)
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