| Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854-1860 Contributor(s): Melton, Tracy Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0938420941 ISBN-13: 9780938420941 Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: Street gangs were rampant in the 1850s and nowhere more than Baltimore. Tracy Melton has gone back to the newspapers, court records and every conceivable original source to recreate this colorful period. Some of it is violent and grisly, but the reader also gets descriptions of clothing and everyday life of gang members, etc. And finally we have the spectacle of four men on the gallows in the jail yard (a yard still visible from I-83 North off Centre Street) with all appeals exhausted, singing a farewell song to 15,000 spectators on a blustery cold, gray April day. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - 19th Century - True Crime |
| Dewey: 975.260 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.04" W x 8.92" (1.82 lbs) 508 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Locality - Baltimore, Maryland - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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Contributor Bio(s): Melton, Tracy Matthew: - Tracy Matthew Melton writes and teaches nineteenth-century urban history. He resides with his wife and three children in Oakton, Virginia. |
