In the Old West, the law was fragile, the men were armed, tempers were short, and socializing took place over shots of rotgut whiskey on a card table in a saloon. This volume of true stories features the thrilling exploits of fearsome outlaws and ferocious lawmen including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Ben Thompson, Wild Bill Hickok and Charlie Siringo. With 18 b/w photographs and 5 maps.

Outlaws and Lawmen of the West: Volume II

Literature & Fiction

Asfar, Dan

United States

LONE PINE PUBLISHING*

Gabriel Dumont: War Leader of the Métis (Legends)

History

Chodan, Tim

Americas

Folklore Publishing

After the Spanish conquest of the Americas and word of the immense wealth flowing out of the New World reached Europe, high seas piracy became the scourge of ocean-going vessels. When French commander Jean Fleury apprehended three Spanish caravels on their way back from Mexico in 1523, shocked gasps were heard all the way from Buckingham to the palaces of Paris. Soon, sailors from all over Europe flocked to the Caribbean.

Real Caribbean Pirates: Rogues, Scoundrels, Heroes & Treasures

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Amid the beauty of Michigan's lakes and forested hills lurk spine-tingling stories of the supernatural. These tales of fright-filled folklore span the length and breadth of the Great Lakes State. Read about the Red Dwarf, a hideous harbinger of doom, who continues to be sighted in Detroit whenever tragedy visits; a cantankerous ghost that hampers renovations of an old farmhouse in Gladwin; and the mysterious growls and barks that haunt Dog Lady Island in east Monroe, where long ago a solitary woman began her legendary metamorphosis into a canine monstrosity.

Ghost Stories of Michigan

Genre Fiction

Ghost House Books

The rich history of Pennsylvania includes ample folklore about the paranormal. Join author Dan Asfar as he recounts the Keystone State's more intriguing ghost stories. The menu of this bizarre banquet ranges from the ghosts of Gettysburg to the mysterious fountain of Philadelphia's Baleroy Mansion, in which a young boy's skull-like reflection foreshadowed his sudden death a month later.

Ghost Stories of Pennsylvania

Contemporary

The four years of the U.S Civil War claimed the lives of 600,000 Americans and left much of the country in ruins. Authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay have collected many of the stories about still restless spirits for whom the war is not yet over: · eyewitnesses swear they've seen the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Edgar Allan Poe at Fort Monroe, one of the few Union forts in the Confederate South · "Old Green Eyes," the disembodied head of a fallen soldier, terrifies visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia · in the cemetery of a former Ohio war prison, a battalion of Confederate dead rise from their anonymous graves. ...and many more haunting tales.

Ghost Stories of the Civil War

Thay, Edrick

In Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its early days. But while the Crescent City teems with historic paranormal characters, the rest of Louisiana is also rife with intriguing and eerie ghost stories. Come explore the Pelican State and uncover its historic supernatural stars: * The ghost of an old woman killed in a car accident returns to her Baton Rouge home to comfort her grieving family. * A young girl's spirit haunts several generations of a family in New Orleans' Garden District. * A mysterious foreigner known only as ''the Sultan'' is massacred along with his servants, forever shrouding his French Quarter dwelling in the mysterious legend of his demise. * Visitors and staff at Oak Alley Plantation, St. James Parish, regularly encounter strange sights and frightening sounds. * Myriad spirits roam the rooms and halls of Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, already famous for the eerie tales from its past. * In life, Marie Laveau was undisputed voodoo queen of New Orleans; in death, she still imbues the city with dark magic. * And many more...

Ghost Stories of Louisiana

The Sunshine state may seem an unlikely venue for tales of the paranormal. However, this land of sun, orange groves and ocean breezes has its own dark and haunted past. St. Augustine, for example, is America's oldest city and has more than a few ghost stories to tell. Bustling Miami also has its share of haunted places, from Miami University to the historic Biltmore Hotel. Author Dan Asfar has culled this chilling collection of some of the most fascinating paranormal events recorded in Florida.

Ghost Stories of Florida

Lights on the road. Phantom hitchhikers. Eerie covered bridges. In this fascinating collection, Dan Asfar shows how ordinary streets and highways can suddenly become terrifying haunts. Based on witness accounts, these stories may force you to think twice before driving late at night.

Haunted Highways: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales

After the rifles, cannons and bugles fall silent, when the losses have been counted and the mourners are gone, the ghosts of war return. Drawing on the Civil War, the War of 1812, the Revolutionary War and other conflicts, storyteller Dan Asfar weaves tales of phantom soldiers, supernatural interventions and star-crossed lovers, capturing both the drama of battle and the enduring mystery of the afterlife: * Glowing blue orbs and phantom drumbeats shock visitors to Antietam National Battlefield, the scene of severe Civil War casualties. * The Angel of Mons descends from the heavens to spare thousands of British troops from a German assault during World War One. * The ghostly soldiers of Camp Hill--a phantom Civil War procession--startle travelers near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia * In a fascinating tale of divided loyalties, a woman's love affair with a Confederate soldier brings a curse on her staunchly pro-Union family. * At Little Bighorn, supernatural remnants of the infamous slaughter bewilder a Vietnam vet. * As sites of suffering and incomparable sacrifice, battlefields remain poignant reminders of our most haunting history.

Haunted Battlefields (Ghost Stories)

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