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  • Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri

    by Larry Wood ...
    Killing is by no means a man's game in Missouri Bonnie Parker has been romanticized in print and on screen since the early 1930s, when she and gangster boyfriend Clyde Barrow robbed banks and left bodies in their wake. She's undoubtedly the most infamous murderous woman in Missouri history—although it's uncertain whether she killed anyone with her own hand—but she's in a crowded field of Show Me ... Read more

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  • Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson

    by Larry Wood ...
    When the Civil War broke out, Missouri was secured for the Union, but many Southern-leaning citizens in the border state resented the Federal occupation. So fighting along the border escalated again as hundreds of boys and young men took to the bush to champion the Rebel cause. Waging a particularly vicious brand of guerilla warfare, they stayed to fight long after regular Confederate forces had ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Wicked Women of Missouri

    by Larry Wood ...
    True stories of Ma Barker, Belle Starr, Bonnie Parker, and other historical female desperadoes of the Midwest . . . Includes photos.Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State," but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts . . .Belle "Queen of the Bandits" Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime ... Read more

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  • Wicked Springfield, Missouri

    The Seamy Side of the Queen City

    by Larry Wood ...
    From its founding in the early 1830s, Springfield was a rough frontier town where whiskey flowed freely, gunplay and fistfights abounded and gambling thrived. The Civil War not only brought the horror of warfare home to Springfield but also introduced worldly vices like prostitution that were scarcely known in previous years. Yet throughout its history, Springfield has managed to maintain a veneer ... Read more

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas

    by Larry E. Wood ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    From railroad towns like Ladore to cow towns like Newton and Wichita, southeast Kansas pulsed with rowdy activity during the late nineteenth century. The unruly atmosphere drew outlaws, including the Dalton Gang, and even crazed serial killers the likes of the Bender clan. Violent incidents, from gunfights to lynchings, punctuated the region's Wild West era, and the allure of the frontier also ... Read more

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Northeast Oklahoma

    by Larry Wood ...
    During the 1800s, when northeast Oklahoma was part of Indian Territory, many fugitives from US justice, like Henry Starr and Cherokee Bill, sought refuge in its hills and hollows. Statehood in 1907 did little to tame the area. Northeast Oklahoma remained a hideout for outlaws into the gangster era of the 1930s, when one of the biggest manhunts in history failed to flush Pretty Boy Floyd from the ... Read more

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  • Hope of Glory

    Inspirational Poems to Warm Your Heart

    by Larry V. Wood ...
    In a world often shrouded in uncertainty and despair, Hope of Glory shines as a beacon of light, guiding readers toward the warmth of faith and the promise of divine love. Written by seasoned pastor Larry V. Wood, this heartfelt collection of poetry invites you to embark on a spiritual journey that lifts the soul and inspires hope in the weary heart. Each poem offers a tender reflection on life's ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Lexington, Missouri

    The Battle of the Hemp Bales

    by Larry Wood ...
    Series series Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
    Following victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Missouri State Guard achieved its greatest success when it advanced on Lexington in September. Former Missouri governor General Sterling Price and his men laid siege for three days against a Union garrison under the command of Colonel James Mulligan. An ingenious mobile breastwork of hemp bales soaked ... Read more

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  • Desperadoes of the Ozarks

    by Larry Wood ...
    The award-winning author of The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia "mine[s] the rich vein of bad men—and succeeds because of solid research." —Fred Pfitser, editor, Ozarks MountaineerThis collection of events carries readers through an era of bootlegging, highway robbery, and vigilante courts. From the cow town of Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the booming mining camp of Granby, Missouri, the Ozarks ... Read more

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  • Murder & Mayhem in Missouri

    by Larry Wood ...
    Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides ... Read more

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  • Frozen Frontier

    A Daniel's Saga

    by Larry Wood ...
    Join the crew of the Tendril as they explore possible remnants of an alien civilization.Things go terribly wrong when their ship is destroyed and their survey craft crash lands on the frozen world of Quarvine.Limited supplies and with no escape from the planet, they must survive the extreme cold as well as each other as tempers flare.The Meridian, with its seven person crew, is commandeered and ... Read more

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  • Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri

    by Larry Wood ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    Women at WarAlthough war was traditionally the purview of men, the realities of America's Civil War often brought women into the conflict. They served as nurses, sutlers, and washerwomen. Some even disguised themselves as men and joined the fight on the battlefield. In the border state of Missouri, where Southern sympathies ran deep, women sometimes clashed with occupying Union forces because of ... Read more

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