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Stewart H. Holbrook (1893–1964)

Auteur de The Swamp Fox of the Revolution

40+ oeuvres 2,375 utilisateurs 25 critiques 4 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus coast to offer a fascinating variety of real-life crime stories. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Stewart H. Holbrook

The Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1952) 348 exemplaires
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952) 299 exemplaires
Wyatt Earp, U. S. Marshal (1952) 211 exemplaires
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960) 172 exemplaires
The Age of the Moguls (1953) 162 exemplaires
America's Ethan Allen (1949) 159 exemplaires
The Story of American Railroads (1947) 139 exemplaires
Davy Crockett (1880) 136 exemplaires
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) 77 exemplaires
The Columbia (1956) 77 exemplaires
Lost Men of American History (1946) 41 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (1962) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires
The Portable Murder Book (1945) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Winter Harvest (1955) — Introduction, quelques éditions31 exemplaires
American Heritage Magazine Vol 09 No 4 1958 June (1958) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Great Stories of American Businessmen (1972) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
The Lady and the Lumberjack (1952) — Introduction — 12 exemplaires
Murder Without Tears (1946) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires

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Nom légal
Holbrook, Stewart Hall
Date de naissance
1893
Date de décès
1964
Lieu de sépulture
Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Professions
lumberjack
journalist
Organisations
The Oregonian

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Critiques

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."
 
Signalé
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."
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
LyndaInOregon | Sep 25, 2022 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
40
Aussi par
13
Membres
2,375
Popularité
#10,807
Évaluation
½ 3.8
Critiques
25
ISBN
65
Favoris
4

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