The Bobbed Haired Bandit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bobbed Haired Bandit write by Stephen Duncombe. This book was released on 2006-02-06. The Bobbed Haired Bandit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news and this text brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty and class conflict.
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
The Bobbed Haired Bandit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bobbed Haired Bandit write by Stephen Duncombe. This book was released on 2007. The Bobbed Haired Bandit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the 1924 crime spree of female armed robber Celia Cooney, a poor, Brooklyn waitress who held up a series of local grocery stores armed with a small gun and wearing a fashionable bobbed hairdo and stylish fur coat, and reveals how politicians and journalists used her story as a cultural, social, and political statement of the times. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
When Law Was in the Holster
When Law Was in the Holster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Law Was in the Holster write by John Boessenecker. This book was released on 2012-09-28. When Law Was in the Holster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in Paul’s story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure. As told by veteran western historian John Boessenecker, this story is more than just a western shoot-’em-up, and it reveals Paul to be far more than a blood-and-thunder gunfighter. Beginning with Paul’s boyhood adventures as a whaler in the South Pacific, the author traces his journey to Gold Rush California, where he served respectively as constable, deputy sheriff, and sheriff in Calaveras County, and as Wells Fargo shotgun messenger and detective. Then, in the turbulent 1880s, Paul became sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, and a railroad detective for the Southern Pacific. In 1890 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U.S. marshal of Arizona Territory. Transcending local history, Paul’s story provides an inside look into the rough-and-tumble world of frontier politics, electoral corruption, Mexican-U.S. relations, border security, vigilantism, and western justice. Moreover, issues that were important in Paul’s career—illegal immigration, smuggling on the Mexican border, youth gangs, racial discrimination, ethnic violence, and police-minority relations—are as relevant today as they were during his lifetime.
Queens of the Underworld
Queens of the Underworld - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queens of the Underworld write by Caitlin Davies. This book was released on 2021-10-14. Queens of the Underworld available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine Peake Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the seventeenth century to the present. From Moll Cutpurse to the Black Boy Alley Ladies, from jewel thief Emily Lawrence to bandit leader Elsie Carey and burglar Zoe Progl, these were charismatic women at the top of their game. But female criminals have long been dismissed as either not 'real women' or not 'real criminals', and in the process their stories have been lost. Caitlin Davies unravels the myths, confronts the lies and tracks down modern-day descendants in order to tell the truth about their lives for the first time.
Big Hair and Plastic Grass
Big Hair and Plastic Grass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Hair and Plastic Grass write by Dan Epstein. This book was released on 2012-06-05. Big Hair and Plastic Grass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.
