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Paul M. Angle

Bloody Williamson

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This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place in which a strange disease has raged for more than eighty years-a disease marked by a pathological tendency to settle differences by force. Fascinated by this, Paul M. Angle, the well-known historian, set out to discover what really had happened. Through enormous research he has been able to reconstruct the whole story in all its horrible, sc… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8041-5277-8
  • EAN: 9780804152778
  • Produktnummer: 17064848
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 300 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'474 KB

Über den Autor


Paul McClelland Angle, is the well-known Lincoln historian and author of The Lincoln Reader (1947), Here Have I Lived-A History of Lincoln's Springfield (1935), and, with Carl Sandburg, Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow (1932), among other books. He was secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association from 1925 to 1932 and librarian of the Illinois State Historical Library and Illinois State Historian from 1932 to 1945. In 1945 he became director of the Chicago Historical Society. This wide experience in history, and particularly Illinois history, made him the perfect writer to set the violence in Bloody Williamson County in its proper perspective.

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