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A Knight of Another Sort : Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition /
"Charlie Birger's legacy is that of the most popular and, arguably, the most violent gangster in southern Illinois during the 1920s. A Russian immigrant who first proved his grit on the streets of St. Louis as a newsboy, Birger later excelled in boxing and breaking horses in the West. But...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1998.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- 1. Birger's early years
- 2. Bootleggings days
- 3. Charlie and Beatrice
- 4. Booze and Harrisburg
- 5. A bad man, yet...
- 6. Egan rats and Hogan's jellyrolls
- 7. The arrival of S. Glenn Young
- 8. The Klan
- 9. Bloody Williamson
- 10. "Don't pull that gun, Ora"
- 11. The start of shady rest
- 12. Bloodshed, cockfights, and bulldogs
- 13. Charles "Hardrock" Davis and the anti-horse thief association
- 14. Trouble in Herrin
- 15. "Blonde bombshell"
- 16. Shotgun shot between the eyes
- 17. Art Newman and Connie Ritter
- 18. Death in drag
- 19. Aerial bombing
- 20. The death of Joe Adams
- 21. "Jar like an explosion"
- 22. A man who knew too much
- 23. "Black hand" letter
- 24. Birger unsatisfied
- 25. "I'm done"
- 26. Oral and Eural Gowan
- 27. "We have beans, beans, beans"
- 28. The mystery couple in the Ford Coupe
- 29. The sympathetic hangman
- 30. Lucky boys
- 31. "It's a beautiful world"
- 32. A bystander who had stumbled into a nightmare
- 33. The mystery of the destruction of shady rest
- 34. "If it hadn't been..."
- Bibliography
- Index.