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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-10162619033X
ISBN-139781626190337
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038579423
Product Key Features
Book TitleMurder and Mayhem in Missouri
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMurder / General, Subjects & Themes / Historical, General, Criminals & Outlaws, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Photography, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorNot Available
Book SeriesMurder and Mayhem Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight0.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-026779
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal364.152/30922778
SynopsisDesperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, a shootout between law enforcement officers and criminal gang members who were trying to free Frank Nash, a notorious gang leader being escorted to federal prison. Follow Larry Wood through the most shameful and savage portion of the Show-Me State's history.