Wild Bill Sullivan: King of the Hollow - 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 Wild Bill Sullivan: King of the Hollow write by Ann Hammons. This book was released on 1980. Wild Bill Sullivan: King of the Hollow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wild Bill Sullivan
Wild Bill Sullivan - 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 Wild Bill Sullivan write by Ann R. Hammons. This book was released on 1992-03-01. Wild Bill Sullivan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure in the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods Thanks to the subject of this fascinating book, Sullivan's Hollow, a seemingly idyllic valley in south Mississippi, gained its rightful position among the notorious place names in American folklore. To the citizenry in the hamlets of Sullivan's Hollow Wild Bill Sullivan was the fearsome local rascal whose bent for pranks, jokes, and chicanery quite often verged on the murderous. To travelers his name inspired a deadly dread of a chance meeting with him on a lonely trail. Wild Bill's love of liquor and his bounding in and out of trouble embellished his darkly checkered reputation. For the annals of folklore he is prime material. Here for the first time in paperback is the story of this nineteenth-century Mississippi maverick, as told by his great-granddaughter. She recounts stories of his best-known "pranks"-such as stripping a Bible peddler naked and hitching him all day to a plow, and she puts a believable face on the legend of Wild Bill's having killed fifty men (or more, as the story proliferates). What reader of this book could fail to believe that no traveler wanted to be passing through Sullivan's Hollow after sundown?
Sullivan's Hollow
Sullivan's Hollow - 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 Sullivan's Hollow write by Chester Sullivan. This book was released on 1978. Sullivan's Hollow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a history of Sullivan's Hollow, Mississippi, a place purportedly synonymous with lawlessness.
American Regional Folklore
American Regional Folklore - 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 American Regional Folklore write by Terry Ann Mood-Leopold. This book was released on 2004-09-24. American Regional Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
The Free State of Jones
The Free State of Jones - 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 Free State of Jones write by Victoria E. Bynum. This book was released on 2003-01-14. The Free State of Jones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory.
