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Murder & Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois
About this book
Southwestern Illinois experienced a plethora of violence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Settlers and Native Americans clashed at the Wood River Settlement, while Abraham Lincoln dueled on a Mississippi River island. Racial strife led to the lynching of a Black schoolteacher in Belleville in 1903 and a deadly riot in East St. Louis fourteen years later. Benbow City was a latter-day Wild West town of saloons, gambling dens and brothels, and Pere Marquette State Park screened a cache of Nike missiles. From the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer to the mystery surrounding Jean Lafitte's grave, John Dunphy examines the bloody ledger of southwestern Illinois.
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Information
Publisher
The History PressYear
2021eBook ISBN
9781439672068Edition
0Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Wood River Massacre
- The Mystery of Jean Lafitteās Grave
- An Abused Slave and the Woman Who Saved Him
- The First Duel in Illinois
- Tickets to a Black Abolitionistās Hanging
- The Lincoln-Shields Duel
- The Lynching of a Schoolteacher
- The Brief but Wild History of Benbow City
- Curtis Reese: Minister, Humanist, Crimefighter
- The East St. Louis Race Riot
- The Lynching of Robert Prager: A World War I Hate Crime
- The Ku Klux Klan in Southwestern Illinois
- James Earl Ray and the Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Nike Missile Base at Pere Marquette State Park
- Bibliography
- About the Author