Season of terror [[electronic resource] ] : the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / / Charles F. Price
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| Autore: |
Price Charles F. <1938->
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| Titolo: |
Season of terror [[electronic resource] ] : the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / / Charles F. Price
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.152/320922788 |
| Soggetto topico: | Serial murders - Colorado - History - 19th century |
| Murder - Colorado - History - 19th century | |
| Serial murderers - Colorado - History - 19th century | |
| Murderers - Colorado - History - 19th century | |
| Frontier and pioneer life - Colorado | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Colorado History, Local 19th century |
| Colorado Race relations | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "Alarming intelligence and intense excitement": first murders in the Pike's Peak country -- "Most horrible and fiendish murders": the bleeding of South Park begins -- "There has been considerable excitement": the First Colorado Cavalry steps in -- "The people are scared nearly to death here": the murderers strike at the vitals of South Park -- "Fallen into the hands of hard men in an evil hour": the lynching of Baxter -- "Glorious news! The mysterious murders unraveled at last": one of the slayers slain -- "Desperate and lawless bravos": the brothers Espinosa -- "Revenge for the infamies committed against our families": serial murder as vendetta -- "Malicious interference was the cause": the scapegoating of Captain E. Wayne Eaton -- "Times have become quiet again": panic recedes in South Park but murder moves elsewhere -- "Ready for any duty, untiring, and full of energy": Samuel F. Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas -- "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches -- "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror -- "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads -- "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?": the Espinosas remembered -- "Times with me have sadly changed": destinies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Season of terror |
| ISBN: | 1-4571-8139-8 |
| 1-60732-237-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788500003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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