Season of Terror : The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863 /

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This book tells the little-known true story of the Espinosas - serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War-era Colorado Territory - and the men who brought them down. For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio and Jose Vivián Espinosa and their y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Price, Charles F., 1938-2019
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Espinosa, Jose Vivián, > -1863.
Espinosa, Felipe Nerio, > -1863.
Vincente, Jose, > -1863
Vincente, Jose, > -1863.
Serial murders.
Serial murderers.
Race relations.
Murderers.
Murder.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
TRUE CRIME > Murder > Serial Killers.
Meurtriers > Colorado > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tueurs en serie > Colorado > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Meurtre > Colorado > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Meurtres en serie > Colorado > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Frontier and pioneer life > Colorado.
Murderers > Colorado > History > 19th century.
Serial murderers > Colorado > History > 19th century.
Murder > Colorado > History > 19th century.
Serial murders > Colorado > History > 19th century.
Colorado.
Colorado > Relations raciales.
Colorado > Histoire locale > 19e siecle.
Colorado > Race relations.
Colorado > History, Local > 19th century.
Local history.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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  • "Alarming intelligence and intense excitement" : first murders in the Pike's Peak country
  • "Most horrible and fiendish murders" : the bleeding of South Park begins
  • "There has been considerable excitement" : the First Colorado Cavalry steps in
  • "The people are scared nearly to death here" : the murderers strike at the vitals of South Park
  • "Fallen into the hands of hard men in an evil hour" : the lynching of Baxter
  • "Glorious news! The mysterious murders unraveled at last" : one of the slayers slain
  • "Desperate and lawless bravos" : the brothers Espinosa
  • "Revenge for the infamies committed against our families" : serial murder as vendetta
  • "Malicious interference was the cause" : the scapegoating of Captain E. Wayne Eaton
  • "Times have become quiet again" : panic recedes in South Park but murder moves elsewhere
  • "Ready for any duty, untiring, and full of energy" : Samuel F. Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas
  • "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her" : the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sánches
  • "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off" : Tom Tobin ends the terror
  • "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils" : Tobin brings in the heads
  • "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?" : the Espinosas remembered
  • "Times with me have sadly changed" : destinies.

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