Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois

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
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: History PR
Published: 02/22/2021
Series: Murder & Mayhem
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781540246080