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Further Details into the Criminal Life of a Former Football Star From teenage gang member to $40 million star of…
the New England Patriots, from All-American college player to drug addict, murderer, dead by suicide in his jail cell at age twenty-seven . . . you think you know the Aaron Hernandez story? You don&’t. For the first time, Aaron Hernandez&’s Killing Fields will reveal the real, hitherto unknown motive for the killing of Odin Lloyd—the only crime for which Hernandez was ever convicted and a revelation so shocking it will shake the foundations of the NFL itself. It will also unpick a pattern of violence and brutality stretching back to his time as a teenager at the University of Florida, revealing further shooting victims, evidence of his involvement in the double murder of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado in 2012, and, in a world exclusive, a compelling case for a fourth murder victim, shot just eleven days before the slaying of Odin Lloyd. Featuring new interviews with serving police investigators, prosecutors, psychologists, attorneys—as well as key witnesses including Hernandez&’s drug dealer, a male stripper he hired days before the killing of Lloyd—plus extensive testimony from relatives of Hernandez&’s victims, Killing Fields is the exhaustive, definitive account of the rise and fall of a man undone by his own appetite for violence, gangsterism, power, drugs, and self-destruction. This is the real Aaron Hernandez story—and perhaps just the beginning of a whole new murder investigation.The Outlaw of Navaho Mountain
By Albert R. Lyman. 2020
Tells the story of Paiute Indian Sowagerie (Posey) from birth to death. Based on historic people and events in San…
Juan County, Utah, abt. 1860 - 1923. Novel focuses primarily on Sowagerie's earlier life and upbringing around Bluff and concludes with the "Posey War" near Blanding.Additional significant characters include Poke, Toorah, Big-Mouth Mike, Pahneab, and other Paiute Indians and the Navajo Indians Tsabekiss and Bitseel.The Peyote Religion: A Study in Indian-White Relations
By James Sydney Slotkin. 2020
The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony
By Washington Matthews. 1978
The Navaho War Dance: A Brief Narrative of its Meaning and Practice
By Berard Haile. 2020
Explains the meanings and customary forms of the Navajo war dance, including information on the drums and rattle sticks, the…
progression of the dance through each of its three days, and the different roles of the various participants.The Wolf Ritual of the Northwest Coast
By Alice Henson Ernst. 2020
This volume includes materials assembled from 1932-1942 along the Northwest Coast. The wolf ritual was isolated for study by the…
author as a major mask ritual deeply expressive of the region.Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police (Images of America)
By Spencer J. Sadler. 2009
Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police ruled small patch towns and industrial cities for their coal and iron company bosses from…
1865 to 1931. Armed with a gun and badge and backed by state legislation, the members of the private police force were granted power in a practically unspecified jurisdiction. Set in Pennsylvania's anthracite and bituminous regions, including Luzerne, Schuylkill, Westmoreland, Beaver, Somerset, and Indiana Counties, at a time when labor disputes were deadly, the officers are the story behind American labor history's high-profile events and attention-grabbing headlines. Paid to protect company property, their duties varied but unfortunately often resulted in strikebreaking, intimidation, and violence.Past Crimes: Archaeological & Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
By Julie Wileman. 2015
Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes and archaeologists are using the…
same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past. This book introduces some of those techniques, and explains how they have been used not only to solve modern crimes, but also to investigate past wrong-doing. Archaeological and historical evidence of crimes from mankind's earliest days is presented, as well as evidence of how criminals were judged and punished.Each society has had a different approach to law and order, and these approaches are discussed here with examples ranging from Ancient Egypt to Victorian England police forces, courts, prisons and executions have all left their traces in the physical and written records. The development of forensic approaches to crime is also discussed as ways to collect and analyse evidence were invented by pioneer criminologists.From the murder of a Neanderthal man to bank fraud in the 19th century, via ancient laws about religion and morality and the changes in social conditions and attitudes, a wide range of cases are included some terrible crimes, some amusing anecdotes and some forms of ancient law-breaking that remain very familiar.The Great Train Robbery and the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad
By Geoff Platt. 2015
The Squad that investigated The Great Train Robbery. "The Old Grey Fox" or "One Day Tommy" (Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy…
Butler) selected six of the best officers on the elite Metropolitan Police Flying Squad to investigate the Crime of the Century, but whilst many books have been written by and about every criminal arrested for this crime, NONE have been written about the detectives who traced and tracked them. Tommy Butler delayed his retirement to complete the job, but died a few months after he retired at 57 years of age, the only detective of his rank in the late 1950s and 1960s not to publish an autobiography.This book provides a detailed account of the men tasked with tracking down the most notorious thieves in British history. It examines the investigation in detail and asks how it would contrast with the methods used today should a similar incident take place.Geoff Platt examines what happened to these men after the investigation was closed and the effect it had on both their personal and professional lives.Free Grass to Fences: The Montana Cattle Range Story
By Robert Henry Fletcher. 2020
The full story of the Montana cattle industry, from the earliest days of the fur traders down to the latest…
Miles City Roundup, written by a man who knows the northwestern range land and its history without a map.One of the essential works on Montana Range Books by one whose family and personal work was intimately involved with the association. Robert Athearn notes it is a fine book dealing with the entire history of the West from the fur trade to the great ranches after 1885. He further observes that though it shows a conservative complaint against the New Deal and having to deal with Federal and State Bureaucrats, he nevertheless shows that the rancher on his own has genuine environmental concerns that do not coincide with mining and allied interests. The author also was famous for the song: “Don’t Fence Me In” sung by Bing Crosby.No Dudes, Few Women: Life with a Navaho Range Rider
By Elizabeth Lester Ward. 2020
The story of a woman’s life lived among her Navajo neighbors— a life lived with sparkling humor, and a sympathetic…
understanding of the natives, set against 25,000 square miles of cold, heat, wind, dust and loneliness. The author’s husband was a range-rider on the Navaho reservation during the stock reduction program of the Indian Bureau.Notes on Hopi Economic Life: Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 15 (Yale University Publications In Anthropology #No. 15)
By Ernest Beaglehole, Pearl Beaglehole. 1978
This source is a general study of Hopi economic life based on the study of two Second Mesa villages —…
Mishongnovi and Shipaulovi. The field work was done by the author in the summers of 1932 and 1934. In addition to the detailed data on various aspects of the Hopi economy (e. g., food gathering, agriculture, etc.), there is a great deal of other information to be found here relevant to household organization, kin and clan, property, foods and food preparation, crafts, house building, labor organization, and the distribution of wealth through ceremony and exchange.Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apaches
By Pliny Earle Goddard. 2020
These myths and tales are the free translations of texts recorded in the dialect of the White Mountain Apache. The…
texts themselves with word for word translations follow as Part IV of the volume. They were recorded, with one exception, during the winter of 1910 as a part of the studies made in the Southwest under the yearly grant of Mr. Archer M. Huntington. The creation myth, secured from Noze, differs in important incidents from the versions given above from the San Carlos as well as from versions secured from other White Mountain Apache. It should not be assumed that these differences are tribal, it is more probable that they are individual, since forms from the San Carlos and Navajo are closely similar to each other. The greater number of the remaining narratives were secured from the father of Frank Crockett, the interpreter employed. Several of these are ceremonial and religious in their character and probably would not have been given except for the son’s influence. Two of these were later secured from San Carlos informants in more extended form but highly corroborative in their general agreement. The main purpose in recording these narratives was to secure sufficient and varied connected texts in the dialect of the White Mountain Apache. As a collection of mythology and folklore it is probably far from complete. It is assumed, however, to be fairly representative. Pliny Earle Goddard. January, 1919.Not So Wild, The Old West: A Collection of Facts, Fables and Fun
By Clara Toombs Harvey. 2020
These are stories of early days in and around Union County, New Mexico. The biographies and thumbnail sketches of many…
of our pioneers who were builders of this part of the Old West, were preserved in scrapbooks, old letters, interviews and my own recollections.Iron Face: The Adventures of Jack Frazer Frontier Warrior, Scout and Hunter
By Joseph Jack Frazer, Henry Hastings Sibley. 2020
Written in the 1850’s by Henry Hastings Sibley, recorded first hand from Iron Face, a half-breed Sioux warrior and scout.…
Frazer, also was a half-breed born and raised in a Sioux village. Includes information on the Black Hawk War and the Minnesota Massacre. Vestal says, “We are lucky, I think, to have this story in any form. Its chief service is a tool to help us understand a kind of life now gone forever.” Stanley Vestal states that this volume presents a close-up picture of the Indians. Jack Frazer was a half-breed whose Sioux name was Iron Face. “There is no lace or perfume in theis book, no gilding of the aboriginal lily . . .”With Introduction And Notes By Theodore C. Blegen And Sara A. Davidson.Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
By Mischa Titiev. 1992
In this classic work, renowned anthropologist Mischa Titiev presents his research on the Hopi Native-Americans. Based on fieldwork he did…
in period 1932 -1940, he describes many aspects of the Hopi culture, from land use and kinship to ceremonies and games. IllustratedTHE HOPI Indians, a tribe speaking a Shoshonean language, are located in the Little Colorado drainage, about 70 miles north of Winslow, Arizona. They are the westernmost representatives of the Pueblo pattern of culture, and archaeological evidence has indicated that they are probably the direct descendants of some of the earliest tribes which settled in the Southwest. Owing in part to geographical isolation, and in part to their stubborn resistance to outside influences, the Hopi have managed to preserve so great a part of their aboriginal culture that they afford a particularly attractive subject for ethnological investigation.John Ledyard’s Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage
By John Ledyard, Helen M. Gilkey, Robert M. Storm. 2020
To the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West Passage, Between Asia and America; Performed in the Years 1776,…
1777, 1778, and 1779Captain John Cook’s last voyage, his third to the Pacific Northwest, was a remarkable one, for his crew included several literate men, scientists, scholars, and specialists. Anticipating a rush into print after the voyage, the British Admiralty ordered all logbooks, journals, diaries, and notes of the crew members confiscated when the fleet returned to England. It has thus been presumed that John Ledyard, the young Yankee sailor, compiled this Journal from memory or from notes which he secretly retained. Aside from its value as an independent account of the Cook voyage, it was the first writing on the Pacific Northwest to be widely distributed in America.The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James: Based on Family Records, Forensic Evidence, and His Personal Journals
By Daniel J. Duke, Teresa F. Duke. 2020
A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death • Presents the…
legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records • Provides photographic evidence, a journal of Jesse James&’s, and historical records that prove James faked his death, verified by experts and civic authorities • Debunks the 1995 DNA test results of James&’s supposed remains The story of the notorious outlaw Jesse James&’s assassination at the hands of Robert Ford has been clouded with mystery ever since its inception. Now, James&’s great-great-grandchildren Daniel and Teresa Duke present the results of more than 20 years of exhaustive research into state and federal records, photographs, newspaper reports, diaries, and a 1995 DNA test in search of the truth behind Jesse James&’s demise. Explaining how the accepted version of the history of Jesse James is wrong, the authors confirm their family&’s oral tradition that James faked his own death in 1882 and lived out his remaining days in Texas. They methodically unravel the legend surrounding his death, with evidence vetted by qualified experts and civic authorities. They share the journal of their great-great-grandfather, kept from 1871 to 1876 and verified to be written in James&’s handwriting. They reveal forensically confirmed photographs of James before and after his supposed killing, including one of James attending his own funeral. Examining James&’s life both before and after his faked death, they provide an account of where he lived and who he associated with, including his interactions with secret societies. They compare the contradictory newspaper reports of James&’s death with accounts by his family and associates, which support that the man buried as James was actually his cousin, and reveal how James tricked authorities into believing he had been killed. Further supporting their claim, the authors debunk the DNA test results of the exhumation of James&’s body in 1995. The Dukes detail the ways in which the test was fraudulent, an assertion supported by the deputy counselor for Clay County at the time of the testing. Backed by a wealth of evidence, the descendants of Jesse James conclusively prove what really happened to America&’s Robin Hood.New York City Gangland (Images of America)
By Arthur Nash. 2010
Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime's rapid ascendancy on…
a national scale than New York City. In 1920, upon the advent of Prohibition, Gotham's shadowy underworld began evolving from strictly regional and often rag-tag street gangs into a sophisticated worldwide syndicate that was--like the chocolate egg crème--incubated within the confines of its five boroughs. New York City Gangland offers an unparalleled collection of rarely circulated images, many appearing courtesy of exclusive law enforcement sources, in addition to the private albums of indigenous racketeering figures such as Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Al "Scarface" Capone, Joe "The Boss" Masseria, "Crazy" Joe Gallo, and John Gotti.Milwaukee Mafia: Mobsters In The Heartland (Images of America)
By Gavin Schmitt. 2012
Milwaukee is best known for its beer--and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were…
not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers racket, and two of the biggest heists in American history. From then on, the sky was the limit, as the Mafia indulged in extortion, protection rackets, and skimming from Las Vegas casinos. The Cream City had its crooked lawyers, corrupt cops, and even a mayor on the take. There was the blood of those who dared to stand in the syndicate's way, who were found dead in ditches or as victims of car bombs. The members of the Mafia included doctors, real estate men, restaurateurs, tavern owners, funeral directors, union presidents, and the most famous Milwaukee gangster of all, Frank Balistrieri. While now considered extinct, the Milwaukee Family was once a dominant force in the Midwest.