Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467147910)

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.

Author: John J. Dunphy
ISBN-10: 1467147915
ISBN-13: 9781467147910
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2021
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d