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Stewart H. Holbrook (1893–1964)

Autore di The Swamp Fox of the Revolution

40+ opere 2,375 membri 25 recensioni 4 preferito

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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 altro coast to offer a fascinating variety of real-life crime stories. mostra meno
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Opere di Stewart H. Holbrook

Wyatt Earp, U. S. Marshal (1952) 211 copie
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960) 172 copie
The Age of the Moguls (1953) 162 copie
America's Ethan Allen (1949) 159 copie
Davy Crockett (1880) 136 copie
The Columbia (1956) 77 copie

Opere correlate

America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (1962) — Collaboratore — 151 copie
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
The Portable Murder Book (1945) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Winter Harvest (1955) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni31 copie
American Heritage Magazine Vol 09 No 4 1958 June (1958) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Great Stories of American Businessmen (1972) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Lady and the Lumberjack (1952) — Introduzione — 12 copie
Murder Without Tears (1946) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Holbrook, Stewart Hall
Data di nascita
1893
Data di morte
1964
Luogo di sepoltura
Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Attività lavorative
lumberjack
journalist
Organizzazioni
The Oregonian

Utenti

Recensioni

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."
 
Segnalato
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."
… (altro)
 
Segnalato
LyndaInOregon | Sep 25, 2022 |

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Opere
40
Opere correlate
13
Utenti
2,375
Popolarità
#10,807
Voto
½ 3.8
Recensioni
25
ISBN
65
Preferito da
4

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