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Who really was Black Bart? While he was a notorious nineteenth-century bandit known for robbing stagecoaches in gold rush California and Oregon, Black Barts true identity is still cloaked in mystery. After being jailed in 1883 as Charles Edward Boles, his picture appeared in all the papersyet hundreds of miners and old neighbors and friends would keep a secret: that the man in the papers was actually Alvy Boles. In History in Plain Sight: Joaquin Miller, Ambrose Bierce, and the Real Black Bart, author and historian Margaret Guilford-Kardell investigates the true identity of the man known as Black Bart, and she draws from Harry L. Wellss History of Siskiyou County, California (1881) and other historical documents, newspaper articles, and letters to explore the fascinating connection between the real Black Bart and poet-novelist Joaquin Millertwo of the most colorful but misunderstood figures from Californias gold rush days. Call me what you will, said a defiant Black Bart upon his arrest. Yet while he was called C. E. Boles or Charles Bolton by the authorities, a story of reputation, competing journalism, and family will show how the real Black Bart was none other than Alvy Boles.
Contributors: Markus Barth Ford Lewis Battles John Bright Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. William R. Farmer Roland Mushat Frye Donald E. Gowan Dikran Y. Hadidian J. Rowe Hinsey W. F. Hobbie A. M. Hunter Halbert M. Jones James L. Mays Roland E. Murphy O. Carm Robert S. Paul Bo Reicke Dietrich Ritschl Culbert G. Rutenber Eduard Schweizer Richard Stauffer Wilhelm Vischer James A. Walther H. Eberhard von Waldow
"The related families of Adams, Legerton, Wakefield and Brockmann of the Carolinas arise from the union in 1853 of George Meredith Adams of Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina and Cornelia Marcelina Townsend of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina." --Introd. George was born on 13 December 1829 and died on 10 May 1886. He married Cornelia on 2 August 1853. She was born on 7 July 1834 and died on 24 July 1887.
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The closing of local mines and factories collapsed the economic and social structure of Ivanhoe, Virginia, a small, rural town once considered a dying community "on the rough side of the mountain." Documenting the creative survival techniques developed by Ivanhoe citizens in the aftermath, It Comes from the People tells how this community organized to revitalize the town and demand participation in its future. Photos, interviews, stories, songs, poems, and scenes from a local theater production tell how this process of rebuilding gradually uncovered the community's own local theology and a growing consciousness of cultural and religious values. A significant aspect of this social transformat...
" Nineteen months before the D-day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the Axis by attacking what Winston Churchill dubbed “the soft underbelly of Europe.” The Allies seized the island of Sicily, landed at Salerno and Anzio, and established a presence along the coast of southern France. With Utmost Spirit takes a fresh look at this crucial naval theater of the Second World War. Barbara Brooks Tomblin tells of the U.S. Navy’s ...