The Riot of '73 Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Hardcover - Dan M. Reynolds

Reducere. On Friday, July 27, 1973, two records were set that day.The temperature climbed to 96 degrees, the hottest day recorded that year, and a riot at th...

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"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Georgelle HirlimanThe terror lasted for thirty-six hours. When it was over, thirty-three inmates were dead, all at the hand...

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Author DAN REYNOLDS has written an enthralling account of a decades-long career in Oklahoma corrections. In On the Other Side of the Bars, he descr...

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Reducere. During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century A...

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Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

The definitive reference for scholars, collectors, curators, art dealers, libraries, and anyone who appreciates the art of Charles M. Russell Charl...

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The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the...

General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter...

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