dc.contributor.author | Penick, James L. | eng |
dc.contributor.corporatename | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.coverage.spatial | United States | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1981 | eng |
dc.description | Includes index | eng |
dc.description | Bibliography: page 182-191 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal vengeance against the society that had punished him. He became a highwayman and merciless killer, a horse thief,
counterfeiter, and slave stealer. He often disguised himself as a clergyman and preached to congregations while confederates
stole their horses. He scattered counterfeit money like confetti. This research was undertaken in a skeptical spirit akin to that of Marshall many years ago. This book is about the legend and about what really happened, but only in a secondary sense is its purpose to set the record straight. How was an indifferent thief transformed into a master criminal? | eng |
dc.description.digitization | Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | The legend of John A. Murrell -- The historical Murrell -- A wholesale rascal: Stewart's Murrell -- The clan -- Rawhead and bloddy bones: the enlargement of Murrell -- THe Murrell conspiracy -- Virgil A. Stewart and the crisis -- Murrell's head -- A notorious scamp -- Essay on sources | eng |
dc.format.extent | viii, 197 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/15170 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | University of Missouri Press (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri System. Office of Academic Affairs (UM). University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Southwest, Old -- History | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Southwest, Old -- Biography | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Murrell, John A. | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Crime -- Southwest, Old -- History | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Outlaws -- Southwest, Old -- Biography | eng |
dc.title | The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history | eng |
dc.type | Book | eng |
dc.type.genre | Biography | eng |