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Stewart H. Holbrook (1893–1964)

Autor/a de The Swamp Fox of the Revolution

40+ obres 2,375 Membres 25 Ressenyes 4 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893-1964) worked as a lumberjack, actor, cartoonist, artillery man, and editor. His lively books on American history cover topics as diverse as the timber industry, the Wobblies, Ethan Allen, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest. Murder Out Yonder ranges from coast to mostra'n més coast to offer a fascinating variety of real-life crime stories. mostra'n menys
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Obres de Stewart H. Holbrook

The Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1952) 348 exemplars
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952) 299 exemplars
Wyatt Earp, U. S. Marshal (1952) 211 exemplars
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960) 172 exemplars
The Age of the Moguls (1953) 162 exemplars
America's Ethan Allen (1949) 159 exemplars
The Story of American Railroads (1947) 139 exemplars
Davy Crockett (1880) 136 exemplars
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) 77 exemplars
The Columbia (1956) 77 exemplars
Lost Men of American History (1946) 41 exemplars

Obres associades

America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (1962) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
The Portable Murder Book (1945) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
Winter Harvest (1955) — Introducció, algunes edicions30 exemplars
American Heritage Magazine Vol 09 No 4 1958 June (1958) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Great Stories of American Businessmen (1972) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Lady and the Lumberjack (1952) — Introducció — 12 exemplars
Murder Without Tears (1946) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Holbrook, Stewart Hall
Data de naixement
1893
Data de defunció
1964
Lloc d'enterrament
Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Professions
lumberjack
journalist
Organitzacions
The Oregonian

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Includes Chapter X, "War Comes to a 'Neutral' Line" covering the Louisville & Nashville during the Civil War. Also of note, Chapter XXV "The Rise of the Railway Express."
 
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LaGrangeRRMuseum | May 17, 2023 |
Short, lively summaries of 10 true-crime incidents, most from the early 1900s, that occurred in rural settings from remote Oregon homesteads to isolated Maine fishing villages.

The lead story is probably the standout, dealing as it does with the trifecta of sex, religious mania, and murder. Close behind that is the tale of a homicidal Indiana widow whose long-distance suitors showed up with cash to help her lift a non-existent morgage, and were never seen again. (And you thought romance scams were an invention of the internet age!) Most of the others deal with such mundanities as money, property, sex (there it is again), and revenge.

Holbrook sums it up with the perfect ending paragraph: "My research has also convinced me that the most interesting crimes in the United States have been committed by persons with rural and backwoods, or at least small-town, backgrounds. I don't think this proves anything in particular, or if it does that it is very important; but it does amuse me when I hear city people wonder, as I often do, what on earth the folks at the forks of the creek can find to talk about."
… (més)
 
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LyndaInOregon | Sep 25, 2022 |

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Obres
40
També de
13
Membres
2,375
Popularitat
#10,807
Valoració
½ 3.8
Ressenyes
25
ISBN
65
Preferit
4

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