Scoundrels, rogues and heroes of the Old North State
Subtitle: revised and updated with new stories and images
By: H.G. Jones ; edited by K. Randell Jones and Caitlin D. Jones.
Contributors: Jones, K. Randell.; Jones, Caitlin D.
Edition: 2nd printing, rev. ed. 2007.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781596292604
Subjects: Criminals -- North Carolina -- Biography; Heroes -- North Carolina -- Biography; Crime -- North Carolina -- History
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Famous imposter bilked North Carolinians; title: The hanging of Frankie Silver; title: Lewis Redmond-king of outlaws; title: Was the slave a prince?; title: Frances Culpeper married three governors; title: Amos Owens made "cherry bounce" famous; title: Anne Bonney, woman pirate; title: "Mr. Read" was a woman; title: Naomi Wise memorialized in song; title: Naomi Wise rode off to death, not marriage; title: Malinda Blalock, North Carolina's only female Civil War soldier; title: Otto Wood, famous prison escape artist; title: North Carolina governor married fifteen-year-old girl; title: Rains brothers of New Bern; title: James H. Jones, the president's valet; title: One of the South's last duels; title: Woman buried seated in chair; title: Sam Brinkley was the authority on pogonotrophy; title: Cyclone Mack was famed evangelist; title: "Indian Chief" was North Carolinian; title: Loud hymn singer taken to court; title: Ruben C. Bland, champion papa; title: Was the "human fly" a Tarheel?; title: The Siamese twins; title: Charity Bowery, North Carolina slave; title: Postmaster had shady reputation; title: Father, nine sons fight for Confederacy; title: James Iredell Waddell never surrendered; title: Six of seven brothers die in civil war; title: Blackbeard an unlikely ancestor; title: Hanging of Calvin and Thomas Coley; title: Martha McFarlane McGee Bell, heroine; title: The story of a runaway; title: Was Nellie Cropsey murdered?; title: North Carolinian held weight record; title: Major George E. Preddy Jr., flying ace; title: Annie Oakley thrilled Pinehurst residents; title: Aunt Abby house was "true grit"; title: New Hanover slave finally escapes; title: Camden County slave bought his freedom; title: Let's honor James Boone this time; title: Woman admitted to state bar in 1878 after debate; title: Phineas T. Barnum in North Carolina; title: Quaint notebook describes North Carolina deaths; title: Cross Woodis oldest North Carolinian?; title: Battle against "germ of laziness"; title: Peter Francisco-Hercules of the revolution; title: Tarheel governor was jinxed; title: Babe Ruth hit first home run in North Carolina; title: L.A. Scruggs, North Carolina's first black doctor; title: Hamp rich-North Carolina's champion monument builder; title: Boys patrolled North Carolina rural roads; title: Largest mail-order liquor business; title: Spanish invade North Carolina; title: John Lawson's journey; title: Tiny Broadwicke, pioneer Aviatrix; title: The buggymobile built in New Bern; title: Former child prodigy founds Birch Society; title: Tarheel banjoist gains new fame; title: William Dudley Pelley (part 1); title: William Dudley Pelley (part 2); title: North Carolinian escapes from slavery; title: Sir Walter Raleigh's death; title: Strange birth in Columbus County; title: Twice elected, twice rejected; title: Lady Olga, the bearded woman; title: Shocco Jones-"the mammoth humbug"; title: About the author; title: About the co-editors.