Diamond Bessie and the Shepherds.

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Author / Creator:	Hudson, Wilson M., author.
Edition:	Reprint.
Imprint:	Denton : University of North Texas Press 1972 College Station : Texas A & M University Press [distributor]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Texas Folklore Society Publications No. XXXVI Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. XXXVI.
Subject:	Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12326903

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ISBN:	9781574410570 1574410571
Summary:	Annotation In the 1860s and '70s, luxury river boats brought U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes; financier Jay Gould; writers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; and actor Maurice Barrymore, the father of John, Ethel, and Lionel, to "Queen City of the Cypress"--Jefferson, Texas. Among lesser known visitors was Abe Rothschild and his apparent bride, Bessie, dressed in fashionable clothes and wearing many diamonds. The couple went to an unusual midwinter picnic in the woods, and two weeks later the body of Bessie was found in the woods shot through the head. From the three trials that followed came a folk drama, "The Diamond Bessie Murder Trial" presented annually in Jefferson as part of a historical pilgrimage.
Standard no.:	9781574410570

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