Download or read book Haunted Fort Smith Van Buren written by Bud Steed and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlaws, lawmen, soldiers and those on the Trail of Tears all passed through the Fort Smith and Van Buren area. Some of those restless spirits remain. Past residents of the "Hell on the Border" jail, which now serves as the visitor's center, make life interesting for employees. At the Clayton House, a ghostly man in a black suit attends weddings uninvited. Residents near the Fort Smith National Cemetery report eerie blue lights hovering over grave markers. A pipe smoker is seen walking the grounds at the Drennen-Scott House. A small girl in Victorian dress is often seen playing among the tombstones at Fairview Cemetery. Author Bud Steed delves into the spectral history of the Arkansas-Oklahoma border.
Download or read book Hidden History of Fort Smith Arkansas written by Ben Boulden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of American westward expansion Fort Smith was the gritty frontier town whose lawless reputation became known both east and west of the Mississippi. Dubbed "Hell on the Border," the last developed township just before unsettled native territory, Fort Smith laid low more than its fair share of settlers, pioneers, and outlaws alike. Yet after years of disorder, reformers and lawmen helped tame the city's wild ways, beginning Fort Smith's transformation into the prosperous city it is today. Yet buried beneath Fort Smith's infamous past are forgotten stories, untold tales, and little known facts concealed just below the city's historical surface. After years spent researching the city's history for his historical column in the Times Record, journalist Ben Boulden uncovers Fort Smith's hidden history.
Download or read book Haunted Histories in America written by Nancy Hendricks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you believe in ghosts, you're in good company. Haunted Histories brings America's most ghostly locales to life, illuminating their role in shaping U.S. history and detailing how they became the nation's most feared places. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born. This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.
Download or read book The Rise of the Gray Ghost written by Michael Aye and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Lee was a surgeon...the best. He was General Bragg's Confederate Army's chief surgeon, when a Union cannonball took off his right hand. For the next several years, Will tried to drown his misery in a bottle. A chance meeting with a one-armed ship's captain changed his life. A freed slave, one that he'd grown up with, carved Will a wooden hand. The skills Will had honed as a surgeon transferred to his ability with a deck of cards and a pistol. When a low-life kidnapped his best friend's wife and his brother's fiancé, Will took action. He soon became known as a man to handle any situation. It was The Rise of the Gray Ghost.
Download or read book Forgotten Ghost Tales and Legends of the Old West written by Robert F. (Bob) Turpin and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ghostly apparitions, frightening superstitions, strange phenomenon, mysterious unexplained happenings, dreams that wake you in the middle of the night in a cold sweat intrigue you, then this book is for you. Forgotten Ghosts and Legends of the Old West has it all. If you are an adventurous soul who enjoys reading a good ghost tale, these exciting accounts should more than fill the bill and leave you wanting more of the same.
Download or read book The Cherokee Ghost Dance written by William Gerald McLoughlin and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these essays a distinguished historian analyzes how the Indian nations of the Southeast grappled with nationalism, slavery, and missionaries. Against the background of this "combined onslaught on their cultural identity," McLoughlin describes what the Indians did "to preserve what they considered most important." The fate of Native Americans was inextricably bound up with the most vital questions of national life"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Arkansas Off the Beaten Path written by Patti DeLano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Arkansas Off the Beaten Path show you the Natural State you never knew existed. Saddle up for a moonlit ride at the Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper. Dig in at Eureka Springs’ Gaskins Cabin Steakhouse, a cabin which belonged to one of the first settlers in the county. Dig down (for real gemstones!) at Jessieville’s Coleman Crystal Mine. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.
Download or read book Garrison Avenue written by Joyce Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the 1910s was no longer a rough western town. Electric lights, fancy hotels, new theaters, trolleys, and automobiles were changing how people traveled, did business, worshiped and enjoyed themselves. Citizens viewed it as a modern city where life was "worth living." Until the night of March 23, 1912 when violence overtook Garrison Avenue--beginning with the shooting of a popular lawman, Andy Carr, and ending with the lynching of an innocent young black man, Sanford Lewis.
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Download or read book Follow the Angels Follow the Doves written by Sidney Thompson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master’s tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master’s mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves’s determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career. Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an important historical work that places Reeves in the pantheon of American heroes and a thrilling historical novel that narrates a great man’s exploits amid the near-mythic world of the nineteenth-century frontier.
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Download or read book Arkansas in Ink written by Guy Lancaster and published by Butler Center Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837 Representative Joseph J. Anthony stabs the speaker of the house to death during a debate about wolf pelts. In 1899 Hot Springs police shoot it out with the county sheriffs over control of illegal gambling. In 1974 President Richard Nixon resigns in part due to the outspokenness of Pine Bluff native Martha Mitchell. In this special print project of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, legendary cartoonist Ron Wolfe brings these and many other stories to life. Accompanied by selected entries from the encyclopedia, Wolfe’s cartoons highlight the oddities and absurdities of our state’s history. Seriously, you couldn’t make up this stuff.
