The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history-although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This...
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The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history-although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This horrifying event is at the center of a compelling novel by author Mark Busby. He has not only researched original documents but has used family oral histories to probe the mysteries that still shroud a lynching that is as horrifying and baffling now as it must have been over a hundred years ago. The ""War of Northern Aggression"" was still
Contents; 1: The Assignment; 2: The Backstory; 3: Finding Joe; 4: Aunt Mag; 5: Bill McDonald; 6: John McDonald; 7: the Clay-Liston Fight; 8: Cousin Elihu Garrett; 9: Mylene Garrett; 10: The Beatles, KLIF, and the Ledgers; 11: This Morning, Mark Twain; 12: Polk Weeks; 13: John Greenhaw; 14: Assistant Attorney General Ned Morris; 15: The Old Scotchman, Jack Ruby, Willy, and Boy; 16: John Howard Griffin; 17: Complicity; 18: Captain Bill's Letter; 19: Reba; 20: Change is Gonna Come; 21: Afterword: Words from the Grave; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; List of Sources Consulted
If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration,...
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If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration, and Woodstock. Fort Benning Blues tells the story of Vietnam from this side of the ocean.Drafted in 1969, Jeff Adams faces a war he doesn't understand. While trying to delay the inevitable tour of duty in Vietnam, Adams attends Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, desperately hoping Nixon will achieve
