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THE BEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GHOSTS
by Bruce Carlson. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 Quixote Press Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: The stories of ghosts of the Mississippi from the 1880s to 1985. An effort was made to confirm the stories, but ghost stories are often known to only a small number of people - so believe or don't. These stories are in the nature of folk tales but there is no sensational blood and gore or religious orientation. [1 copy available]
$ 9.50 + $ 2.94 media shipping.

CHARLESTON GHOSTS
by Margaret Rhett Martin. B&W illustrations by Alfred Simons. Condition: UNREAD 1988 University of South Carolina Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), eleventh printing. Interior is perfect but DJ does have light edgewear - shelfwear. Odd binding or manufacturing error: the book is in square, but the back cover is just a bit wider than the front. Content: 18 delightful ghost tales about Sharleston and the Low country told as only a native Charlestonian could tell them. Reviewer: "Written and first published almost forty years ago, Charleston Ghosts was the product of the late Martin's fervid interest in her hometown's history, particularly the tales of local hauntings and the circumstances that caused the unearthly unrest as recounted over and again by other native Charlestonians. These stories, tales of spurned love (a wealthy society girl rejects love for money and pays the consquences) and rejection (a house servant risks her heart and loses) are as colorful as the city itself. Pick up a copy of Charleston Ghosts if you are unable to visit the city yet have an interest in Southern history and "otherworldly" things. Martin's retellings of the city's more known legends are fascinating to read, from the frightening "Gray Man" of St. Philip's Episcopal Cemetery to the "Whistling Doctor" who can still be heard--a century after his death!" Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 8.49 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE: The Story of the Natchez Trace
by Jonathan Daniels. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Pelican (Gretna) paperback, first printing. Light tanning to white cover edges & interior page edges. Content: It was a road traveled by such men as Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, and Meriwether Lewis. It was a highway for ruthless robbers, rugged pioneers, settlers, and soldiers - the whole company of those ready with grasping hads to seize a continent. Daniels takes the reader over this old trail, exploring the whole dramatic story of the Trace in fascinating detail. [2 copies available]
$ 3.50 + $ 2.94 media shipping.

GHOSTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
by Dave Lapham. Wonderful B&W drawings by Tom Lapham. Condition: NEW 1998 Pineapple Press Trade Paperback, 8th printing. Content: Reviewer: "Published in 1997, this is a great collection of ghost stories of our nation's oldest city. One gets the flavor of this city, the Spanish quarter, the lighthouse, Flagler College, among the unique buildings and places reported to be haunted. Anyone who has ever walked the historic district at night can attest to the strong feeling of history and it certainly can make one wonder if they are really alone. A great little book, and a nice start to the library of anyone who travels... usually regional collections of ghost stories are available in many localities, and they make a unique remembrance of a trip. After reading this, perhaps you will be willing to brave a night in room 3A at the St. Francis Inn!" Questions welcome [1 copy available]
$ 6.59 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER TALES (From the American Storytelling Tradition)
edited by Frank McSherry, Jr.; Charles Waugh; & Martin Harry Greenberg. Cover Art by Jan Weeks. Condition: UNREAD 1988 August House (Little Rock) Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny "ding" to bottom front cover tip. Interior perfect. Content: Twelve stories comprise this collection about the Mississippi, its fabulous floods, the islands and flats that reappear as the waters recede and the diverse people who live along its shores and run the steamboats, rafts, skiffs and dugouts. Featured are an account of a Civil War battle fought on the river, an ancient Indian tale of a wronged wife, a macabre story of the revenge of underwater creatures, an adventure involving a part-time paperhanger and sometime "deteckative" and a steamboat race (evoking the ship's "little faded staterooms, that in their time had heard the laughter of fair women, the whispers of politicians; that had seen the meetings of statesmen, the brawls of gamblers ..."). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 4.50 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

THE MOUNTAIN, THE MINER, AND THE LORD And Other Tales from a Country Law Office
by Harry M. Caudill. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1980 University of Kentucky Trade Paperback, first printing. Problem: light tanning to white cover edges but none to interior pages. Name on top, bottom, and fore edges - but small and light. Content: The stories in this book are supposedly non-fiction, but one story has caused doubt on the others. Reviewer: "Regardless of whether these stories are biographies or bio-fictions, Mr.Caudill shows excellent writting skills in his story telling. Sitting at the knees of story-tellers in the south there was always some fiction thrown in with the truth. Each story was as enthralling and detailed of the lives of hard working mountain people as the next. With Mr.Caudill being an attorney, some stories told the legal hardships people endured. I found it to be a quite exceptional book and I have dozens and dozens of "Mountain People" books to compare it to. I did feel like I was sitting on the porch, after dinner clean-up, with a story teller. I enjoyed this book very much and I would recommend it to anyone who likes to hear stories of the Appalachian people. He zeroes in on particular counties around the southeastern part of Kentucky and he mentions places that some of us know all too well." [1 copy available]
$ 3.75 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (Facsimile/Tennesseana Editions)
by David Crockett. Intro & annotations by James Shackford and Stanley Folmsbee. B&W photos. Condition: Although it appears unread, I can't swear to it - so, very good 1984 University of Tennessee (Tennessean Edition) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. Facsimile Edition. Light foxing all edges but NO tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "David Crockett found himself to have become mythologized in his own lifetime. Every indication is that he arrived at this place accidentally, but that once he recognized his own pop-culture status he took advantage of it and nurtured it at every turn. His Narrative, therefore, must be read with a certain amount of skepticism nevertheless it is still valuable as an historical record. The narrative is a journey from start to finish; true Homeric stuff. He describes his journey into adulthood in pre-Mark Twain style, then his journey as an adventurer in the military, his journey across the state of Tennessee with his family, and finally his journey into politics. There may be many embellishments within his narrative, but considering the period in which it was written (while he contemplated a much larger political career) the topics he chose to describe actually seem prosaic and understated, as if he were deliberately trying to avoid bragging about himself. In this light, perhaps the Narrative is more accurate than is generally assumed. The Narrative may have been ghost-written by someone else, but there is enough Crockett in it to give it legitimacy. His jabs at Andrew Jackson are quaintly hilarious, but they are also true. In this pre-Alamo period of his life, his willingness to take a stand against Jackson (over Indian matters) might be the bravest thing he ever did. Lastly, the language itself is fascinating." [1 copy available]
$ 16.49 + $ 3.39 media shipping.

THE STORY OF OLD STE. GENEVIEVE:
An Account of An Old French Town in Upper Louisiana; Its People and Their Homes
by Gregory M. Franzwa. 82 B&W photos, drawings and maps illustrate. Condition: Good +, pre-read Patrice Press (St. Louis) paprback, only date given "1967 copyright date." Edgewear and pale spine crease & glue strings. Interior clean - no tanning. Content: This is the history of a "nearly untouched" historic town of 5,000 people in Louisiana, on the Mississippi, 65 miles downstream from St. Louis. Photos of the historic buildings with history and descriptions of each. Even goes into the pre-history of the town and the geology. An interesting book. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 10.50 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

TOTTY
by Verna Harshfield. B&W era family photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1984 December Rose Publications hardcover (no DJ for this one), first edition. The first chapter does show some bookstore browsing - but nothing serious. Content: This is a family memoir of growing up in Evening Shade, Arkansas, in the 1920s. Introduction by the great Adela Rogers St. John. [1 copy available]
$ 4.49 + $ 3.19 media shipping.

VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS
by Robert Tallant. Cover art by Francis Huffman. Condition: Very good 1998 Pelican Publishing (Gretna, La) MMPB, fourth printing. Pale shelfwear hinge crease with small edgewear. Interior clean & tight but page edges are tanning. Content: Originally published in 1944, this is not a "how-to-practice-voodoo book" but rather a history of Voodoo as practiced in New Orleans over a two hundred year period. It is also a fantastic look of the smaller details of a hidden culture. The history of the famous Marie Lavaeu is most interesting. [1 copy available]
$ 2.75 + $ 2.89 media shipping.

THE WOOLFOLK TRAGEDY: The murders, the trials, the hanging, and now, finally the truth.
by Carolyn Deloach. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 Anneewakee River Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Before sunrise on August 6, 1887, a respected gentleman farmer, Captain Richard Woolfolk, was savagely murdered along with his wife, their five children, and his wife's eighty-four-year old great aunt. At day break, local authorities, crippled by mass hysteria, made an arrest. The state of Georgia abruptly awakened itself from its simmering post Civil War stupor and amid rampant yellow journalism, unfounded rumors, prejudice, lies and blatant confessions, struggled to prove the one survivor of that tragic night, Thomas G. Woolfolk, the Captain's eldest son, to be the lone axe murderer. [1 copy available]
$ 8.49 + $ 3.29 media shipping.