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Informationen zum Autor Matthew P. Mayo is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, including Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears (TwoDot, January 2010) and the Western novels Winters' War, Wrong Town, and Hot Lead, Cold Heart. Raised in Rhode Island and Vermont, he has spent much of his adult life in Maine, writing about the state for Down East and other publications. Visit him at matthewmayo.com. Klappentext The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's history and present them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Zusammenfassung The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy! intrepid characters. Bootleggers! Lobstermen! and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's history and present them to the reader in one convenient! narrative-driven package. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pilgrims' ProgressA rough Atlantic crossing is followed by frigid temperatures, scurvy, starvation, and death. . . . Welcome to the New World. (1620)2. Dungeon RockIn a cave near Lynn, Massachusetts, pirate Thomas Veal guards his treasure-until the Great Earthquake of 1658 buries him alive. (1658)3. The Great Swamp FightThe Narragansetts are attacked deep in Rhode Island's Great Swamp by a force of 1,200. Three hundred children, women, and old people are shot, bludgeoned, and burned to death. (1675)4. The Candlemas MassacreFive hundred Abenakis raid York, Maine, killing, kidnapping, and burning. Jeremiah Moulton sees his parents get scalped. He doesn't forget . . . or forgive. (1692)5. A Crushing EndDuring the Salem witch trials, 150 people are imprisoned on charges of witchcraft, twenty-nine are convicted, nineteen are hanged, and five die in prison. Giles Corey is not so lucky. (1692)6. A Mother's AngerHannah Duston of Boscowen, New Hampshire, kills and scalps her sleeping captors . . . to avenge their brutal murder of her baby. (1697)7. Boon Island's CurseA midwinter wreck strands fourteen sailors on this barren rock six miles off the coast of York, Maine. Only ten survive for twenty-four days, without fire, by eating what meat is available. (1710)8. Pirate Treasure"Black Samuel" Bellamy captures the treasure-laden Whydah. But as the crew nears its home port of Cape Cod, a tempest strikes, and the ship's timbers begin to crack. (1717)9. The Brutality of Ned LowVicious pirate Ned Low captures a Boston whaler, tortures the crew, steals their food, and sets them adrift to starve. But he's still not satisfied. (1723)10. The Meetinghouse TragedyThe frame of the new Wilton, New Hampshire, meetinghouse collapses, dropping fifty-three workers three stories to the ground-followed by tons of trusses and tools. (1773)11. Ann Story's CaveA falling tree kills her husband, and Indians burn her cabin, but Ann Story stays on her hard-won Vermont land, living in a riverbank cave and helping capture Tories. (1775)12. Bunker HoleMainer Jack Bunker hijacks a British ship full of food stolen from colonists. The British give hard chase, so he runs it into a hidden cove, cuts the masts, and waits. (1775)13. The Knox Cannon TrainColonel Henry Knox leads eighty yoke of oxen, dragging fifty-nine cannons, three hundred miles in fifty-six days over mountains, lakes, and swamps . . . in winter. The British siege is soon broken. (1775)14. A Manly ShowingDuring Connecticut's battle of Ridgefield, Colonel Benedict Arnold's horse, shot nine times, falls on him. A charging redcoat demands surrender, but Arnold refuses. (1777)15. Revolutionary WomanDressed as a man, Deborah Sampson is wounded fighting for the Continental Army. She pries a musket ball from her leg with a knife, but a second ball is lodged too d...
