Murder And Mayhem In Southwestern Illinois (Murder & Mayhem) - 9781540246080

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
• | Publisher: History PR
• | Publication Date: February 22, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 130 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1540246086
• | ISBN-13: 9781540246080