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Mississippi Scoundrels
Murderers, Marauders & Downright Vile Characters
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- English
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About this book
Author Alan Brown shines the light on some of worst characters in Mississippi history. Mississippi's nickname--"The Magnolia State"--highlights the region's natural and architectural beauty. However, Mississippi is also home to a rogue's gallery of thieves and murderers, beginning with the nation's first serial killers--the Harpe Brothers--and continuing to the present with Glen Rogers, "The Cross Country Killer." Lurking through Mississippi Scoundrels is a wide variety of scalawags, ranging from the 19th century "hell raisers " in Natchez-under-the-Hill to racist murderers, like Byron De La Beckworth and Samuel Bowers. Readers will also find "bad men" who have morphed into folk heroes, like Rube Burrow--"The King of the Train Robbers"--and Texas Red, Franklin County's African-American outlaw. But this book isn't all about atrocious men. Here you'll encounter vile women such as Ouida Keaton and Ruth Thompson, both of whom committed matricide, and Carolee Biddy, who killed her stepdaughter.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Devils of the Natchez Trace
- 2. The Ruffians, Scalawags and Varmints of Natchez Under-the-Hill
- 3. John Murrell: The Great Western Land Pirate
- 4. The Copeland Gang
- 5. Colonel Edward Yerger: Veteran, Editor and Murderer
- 6. The Meridian Race Riot of 1871
- 7. Jesse James’s Visit to Corinth, Mississippi
- 8. Barney Lewis’s First and Last Train Robbery
- 9. Will Purvis: The Man Who Was Hard to Hang
- 10. Kinnie Wagner: Cop Killer and Folk Hero
- 11. Rube Burrow: King of the Train Robbers
- 12. William Lipscomb: Scooba’s Dr. Death
- 13. Chaos in Kemper County
- 14. Drunk, Disorderly and Dastardly: The Murderers of Bill Chisolm
- 15. Boss Weatherford: The First Execution in Lamar County
- 16. The Murder of Medgar Evers
- 17. The Reverend George Lee: Humphreys County’s Civil Rights Martyr
- 18. Murder in Neshoba County
- 19. Ouida Keeton: The Legs Murder Case
- 20. Matricide in Leland, Mississippi
- 21. Emmett Till
- 22. Vernon Dahmer: Killed by the Ku Klux Klan
- 23. Caroline Biddy: A Wicked Stepmother?
- 24. Vincent and Margaret Sherry: Victims of the Mississippi Mafia
- 25. Glen Edward Rogers: The Cross-Country Killer
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- About the Author
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