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  • Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King

    Wild Woman of the Closed Frontier

    by Jerry Kuntz ...
    This true crime biography chronicles the misadventures of a lady outlaw who caused havoc across the late-19th century northern plains.The American historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously declared the 1890s to be the close of the American Frontier. But from 1887 to 1893, a young woman known as Nellie King was far from being tamed. King scandalized the residents of the Dakotas, Minnesota and ... Read more

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  • A Leap from the Clouds

    The Balloon-Parachute Act and the Daredevil Heritage of Aviation

    by Jerry Kuntz ...
    In the late nineteenth century, circus aerialists collaborated with show balloonists to perform death-defying stunts, initially by suspending themselves from trapeze bars beneath a balloon, later by jumping from the balloons using fabric parachutes. By the 1890s, these performances became a worldwide craze, remaining in rural fairs and fetes for decades. Many of the original balloon-parachute ... Read more

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  • The Heroic Age of Diving

    America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie

    by Jerry Kuntz ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.Winner of the 2016 Dr. Art Bachrach Literary Award presented by the Historical Diving SocietySilver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation CategoryBeginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of America's Industrial Revolution turned their ... Read more

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    As seen on NBC's Dateline—the shocking account of a teenage girl with murder on her mind from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Black Widower.She posted it online: "Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered." But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn't begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother's body locked in a van. Doused in ... Read more

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    When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely.Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons, who had been called to the scene that night, ... Read more

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