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Village of the Damned: The lynching of Samuel L. Bush at the hands of 2,000 assassins, and the curse it spawned.
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ISBN10: 153294537X
ISBN13: 9781532945373
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 6 2016
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781532945373
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 6 2016
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Dubbed Hell's Half Acre, Decatur is the second most corrupt city in Illinois. It earned its standing as a tough town with more gambling, prostitution and liquor than cities twice its size. Sprawled all around this rotten core were farm towns connected by telegraph and short-hop rail lines. If Decatur was always a wide-open sin-town, Mt. Zion was always a narrow, isolated back-water where the first settlers died of malaria. Samuel L. Bush was one of 4,000 lynchings to take place in the United States. Is it possible the haunted soul of one man possessed the power to stain and curse an entire region?
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