Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland by Lizzio, Ken

Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781493036592)

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Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland by Lizzio, Ken

Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland

$26.95
Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland by Lizzio, Ken

Pirates of the Prairie: Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.

Author: Ken Lizzio
ISBN-10: 1493036599
ISBN-13: 9781493036592
Publisher: Lyons Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Ken Lizzio
By Ken Lizzio
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Ken Lizzio is an anthropology professor and author of Embattled Saints: My Year with the Sufis or Afghanistan, an ethnography of an Islamic mystical brotherhood that won the IBPA's 2015 Ben Franklin Silver Award. He also penned Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff. Having written a work on the American frontier, he is conversant with the literature of the frontier and has an abiding interest in the American West. He lives in Basye, Virginia.

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