[PDF] Langdon W Moore eBook

Author : Langdon W. Moore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781333505332

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Excerpt from Langdon W. Moore: His Own Story of His Eventful Life David Ash's home farm consisted of about three hundred acres, and cut one hundred tons of hay, wintered forty head of cattle and two hundred and fifty merino sheep. Here I learned never to say I can't until I had tried and failed. I also learned to eat what was set before me without finding fauAt the expiration of the year, when the butter and cheese were loaded on the wagon to start for Newburyport, I asked Mr. Ash to let me go with him to visit my parents; but with a little coaxing and a bright silver dollar, such as our fore fathers made, be persuaded me to stay at the farm another year. He andhis brother made the trip alone. When they returned three weeks later, I was given some nice little pres ents from my mother. Before the next fall came around, Mr. Ash bargained with me to hire out to him until I was twenty one years of 'age. Then he was to give me two hundred dollars in money, two suits of home-spun and home-made clothes, a pair of two-year-old steers, a three-year-old heifer, and a half-dozen sheep. These I could select myself. In addition to this, he was to give me three months' schooling each winter and board and clothe me. I was to be considered as one of his family, and to receive the same treatment as his own children, and to be allowed at his expense to make one brief visit home to my parents after I was fifteen years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Byrnes
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Crime
ISBN :

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Contained in the item are "36 heliotype plates with photographs of mug shots of criminals (204), and two plates; one of Inspector Byrnes, and the second a tableau of a criminal being held for his picture."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 85

Author : Larry E. Sullivan
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781888451375

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Now a highly politicised medium, this book of prison literature collects a lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict autobiographies, examining crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, survival techniques and spiritual awakenings. Hard labour in coal mines, whippings, solitary confinement in bare unheated cells, water torture and iron maidens were just a few of the punishments meted out to these prisoners and vividly recounted in these selections.

Author : Chic Conwell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226780511

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This monograph by a professional thief—with the aid of Edwin H. Sutherland's expert comments and analyses—is a revealing sociological document that goes far to explain the genesis, development, and patterns of criminal behavior. "Chic Conwell," as the author was known in the underworld, gives a candid and forthright account of the highly organized society in which the professional thief lives. He tells how he learned to steal, survive, succeed, and ultimately to pay his debt to society and prepare himself for full and useful citizenship. The Professional Thief presents in amazing detail the hard, cold facts about the private lives and professional habits of pickpockets, shoplifters, and conmen, and brings into focus the essential psychological and sociological situations that beget and support professional crime.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2680 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131744552X

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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.