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Haunted Austin

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Author : Jeanine Plumer
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-01

Haunted Austin written by Jeanine Plumer and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with History categories.

Discover the spirits and ghosts that have been keeping Austin weird for centuries in this guidebook to the city’s supernatural residents. A killer lurks in the dark streets, victimizing servant girls throughout 1885, and Austin becomes the first American city to claim a serial killer. The spirits of convicts wander amidst the manicured grounds of the Texas State Capitol, while inside a public servant assassinated in 1903 still haunts its corridors. These are just a few of the strange and frightening tales of Haunted Austin. Within these pages lies evidence that the frontier bravado legendary in so many Texas men and women lives on long after death. Author Jeanine Plumer explores the sinister history of the city and attempts to answer the question: Why do so many ghosts linger in Austin?

Haunted Austin

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Author : Jeanine Marie Zeller-Plumer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Haunted Austin written by Jeanine Marie Zeller-Plumer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Ghosts categories.

Haunted Austin

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Author : Jeanine Plumer
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2010-09

Haunted Austin written by Jeanine Plumer and has been published by History Press Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

A killer lurks in the dark streets, victimizing servant girls throughout 1885, and Austin becomes the first American city to claim a serial killer. The spirits of convicts wander amidst the manicured grounds of the Texas State Capitol while inside a public servant assassinated in 1903 still haunts the corridors. These are just a few of the strange and frightening tales of Haunted Austin. Within these pages lies evidence that the frontier bravado legendary in so many Texas men and women lives on long after death. Author Jeanine Plumer explores the sinister history of the city and attempts to answer the question: why do so many ghosts linger in Austin?

Haunted Austin Texas

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Author : Scott A. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Release Date : 2009

Haunted Austin Texas written by Scott A. Johnson and has been published by Schiffer Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

Provides accounts of reportedly haunted places in Austin, Texas, each with information on the history of the location, and its ghosts.

The Ghostly Tales Of Austin

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Author : Carie Juettner
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-02

The Ghostly Tales Of Austin written by Carie Juettner and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Ghost stories from Texas's capitol have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of Austin comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Chat with the ghosts who roam the hallways of the capitol building downtown. Or visit Mount Bonnell and learn about Antonia, who threw herself from the cliffs after her fiancé perished trying to rescue her. Learn the history of the great flood of 1900 and then witness the ghostly orbs at Lake McDonald. Are they the spirits of the dead? Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.

The Ghosts Of Austin Texas

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Author : Fiona Broome
language : en
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Release Date : 2007

The Ghosts Of Austin Texas written by Fiona Broome and has been published by Schiffer Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

Austin, Texas, is filled to the brim with eerie tales of phantoms and creepy happenings. Read about Ben Thompson, Austin's ghostly gambler and sheriff; meet Blanche Dumont, a famous "boarding house madam" ghost; explore the early days of the notorious Jack the Ripper and his killing spree in Austin; and find out how to observe the very strange and scary emergence of 20 million bats! Even better, this book tells you their exact locations, so that you can encounter Austin's ghosts.

Ghosthunting San Antonio Austin And Texas Hill Country

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Author : Michael Varhola
language : en
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Release Date : 2015-09-08

Ghosthunting San Antonio Austin And Texas Hill Country written by Michael Varhola and has been published by Clerisy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Travel categories.

Settled by Spanish explorers more than three centuries ago, San Antonio has a rich haunted history. Ghosthunting San Antonio by local author Micharl Varhola covers 30 haunted locations in or around the cities of San Antonio and Austin and throughout the region known as Texas Hill Country. Each site combines history, haunted lore and phenomena, and practical visitation information. The book is organized into four geographical sections, "City of San Antonio," "Greater San Antonio," "Austin," and "Texas Hill Country." This hands-on guide also includes an introduction to the subject of ghosthunting in the Lone Star State and all the information readers need to visit the places described within it. It also has an appendix that briefly describes nearly 100 other haunted places. Sites covered include bridges, churches, colleges and universities, cemeteries and graveyards, government buildings, historic sites, hotels, museums, parks, restaurants and bars, and much more. They include the Crockett Hotel, built on the spot where David Crockett and the final defenders of the Alamo are believed to have been slain; the Ghost Tracks, where spectral children are known to move people's stopped cars and the Devil's Backbone, the haunted highway that wends through the hills north of San Antonio.

Ghostly Tales Of Austin

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Author : Carie Juettner
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Release Date : 2021-08-02

Ghostly Tales Of Austin written by Carie Juettner and has been published by Arcadia Pub (Sc) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-02 with categories.

Ghost stories from Texas's capitol have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of Austin comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Chat with the ghosts who roam the hallways of the capitol building downtown. Or visit Mount Bonnell and learn about Antonia, who threw herself from the cliffs after her fiancé perished trying to rescue her. Learn the history of the great flood of 1900 and then witness the ghostly orbs at Lake McDonald. Are they the spirits of the dead? Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.

Haunted Restaurants Taverns And Inns Of Texas

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Author : Robert Wlodarski
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-08-01

Haunted Restaurants Taverns And Inns Of Texas written by Robert Wlodarski and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with History categories.

Loaded with tangy tales of spirits who inhabit places where you can spend a night or have a bite to eat. Listed by city, each haunted locale provides in-depth history about the spirited occupants, current facts and additional references. This book would be fully revised and would not include detailed travel information, just the stories.

The Life And The Adventures Of A Haunted Convict

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Author : Austin Reed
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-01-26

The Life And The Adventures Of A Haunted Convict written by Austin Reed and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Reed was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “One of the most fascinating and important memoirs ever produced in the United States.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . triumphantly defiant . . . The book’s greatest value lies in the gap it fills.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Reed displays virtuosic gifts for narrative that, a century and a half later, earn and hold the reader’s ear.”—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle “[The book’s] urgency and relevance remain undiminished. . . . This exemplary edition recovers history without permanently trapping it in one interpretation.”—The Guardian “A sensational, novelistic telling of an eventful life.”—The Paris Review “Vivid and painful.”—NPR “Lyrical and graceful in one sentence, burning with fury and hellfire in the next.”—Columbus Free Press