Hidden Histories & Hidden Gems

Name: Hidden History of Eureka Springs
Brand: Joyce Zeller
SKU: 9781609493769
Price: 21.99 USD
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The books he didn't know he needed.

Haunted histories, true crime, secret stories, and surprising reads from coast to coast. The perfect gift for the dad who thinks he knows everything — until he opens this.</p>

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Hidden History of Eureka Springs

$21.99 $17.59 Save 20%

Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans

Jeff Dwyer

$18.95 $15.16 Save 20%

Haunted Louisiana

Arcadia Publishing

$21.99

Haunted Central Louisiana

Michael D. Wynne

$21.99 $17.59 Save 20%

Wicked New Orleans

Troy Taylor

$19.99

Hidden History of the Llano Estacado

Paul H. Carlson

$24.99

Joyce Zeller

Hidden History of Eureka Springs

9781609493769

$21.99

Eureka Springs has a lively and colorful past, peppered by one-of-a-kind characters drawn to the town for its soothing waters.

And while Eureka Springs is known today as one of the most well-preserved towns in the nation, some of its most interesting history hides in plain sight. Join local author Joyce Zeller as she uncovers the remarkable and often forgotten history of this natural wonder of the Ozarks. With tales of the 1922 bank robbery, the residency of notorious prohibitionist Carry A. Nation and how a beloved cat named Morris became general manager at the historic Crescent Hotel, this is a side of the Eureka Springs story that won't be found anywhere else.

Rita Cook

Haunted Dallas

9781609492014

$21.99 $17.59 Save 20%

Tales of the strange and supernatural echo through the halls and city streets of the Big D. At the Renaissance-inspired Majestic Theater, it is rumored that the curtains are lowered by ghostly hands, and it is said that there is a sadness that lingers at the Sixth Floor Museum in the room where Oswald aimed at JFK. Travel downtown to the grand Adolphus Hotel, where guests from the turn of the century still dance to the strains of a phantom waltz, but beware of the stretch of road along White Rock Lake where a mysterious force kills the engines of unwary motorists. Join local author Rita Cook as she journeys into the darkest corners of the Texas heartland with this chilling collection of stories.

Jeff Dwyer

Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans

9781455621583

$18.95 $15.16 Save 20%

It�s not hard to find restless spirits in the Big Easy. Let the popular paranormal investigator guide you through its winding streets and history.

Newly revised and updated, this installment in the much-acclaimed�Ghost Hunter�s Guide Series�is designed for locals, new residents, and travelers seeking the haunted history of the Crescent City and nearby locations. Detailed descriptions and historical background for more than two hundred locations guide readers to sites where they might encounter ghostly apparitions.

Sites and spirits in the Garden District and French Quarter include the ghosts of voodoo priestesses, victims of yellow-fever epidemics, several well-known French Quarter restaurants, and the famous Lalaurie Mansion, thought to be the most haunted house in New Orleans. A section on City Park, the Faubourg Marigny, and nearby Chalmette, the site of the Battle of New Orleans, is also provided. A chapter dedicated to day trips suggests the paranormal possibilities awaiting travelers destined for the famous River Road plantations and Baton Rouge.

Praise for Jeff Dwyer�s Ghost Hunter�s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

�While sometimes scary, [the ghost stories] more often serve as reminders of the sometimes quirky, and oftentimes tragically haunting, history of the people of California.� �The Reporter (Vacaville, CA)

�I thought I knew everything about the wine country, but I apparently overlooked the protoplasmic �walk by night� world.� �Mick Winter, author of The Napa Valley Book

Arcadia Publishing

Haunted Louisiana

9781455626649

$21.99

GHOSTLY ESCAPADES AND UNEXPLAINED HAPPENINGS CONJURE THE SPECTRAL SOUTH IN HAUNTED LOUISIANA! “Prepare to be engaged and entertained to a degree to which you are certainly unaccustomed.” —Phillip J. Jones, former secretary, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism Spooky stories and behind-the-scene incidents from the award-winning PBS documentary The Haunting of Louisiana, written and produced by skilled raconteur Barbara Sillery, fill the pages of this tantalizing collection. Take a self-guided tour using her extensive list of sites and investigate the unexplained phenomena behind the facades of historic architecture, in the mists of the bayous, and beneath layers of history and intrigue in this glimpse into Louisiana’s richly haunted past.

Michael D. Wynne

Haunted Central Louisiana

9781455628056

$21.99 $17.59 Save 20%

Uncover tales of the strange and supernatural in Central Louisiana.

New Orleans doesn’t hold a monopoly on Louisiana’s haunted lore. Souls who brave the shadows along the bayous and byways of Central Louisiana will encounter a haunted heritage centuries in the making. From the legends swirling about Alexandria’s historic Hotel Bentley and the Old Pineville City Hall to an exploration of an abandoned speakeasy in downtown Alexandria, explore the spirted legacy of the Crossroads of Louisiana.

Troy Taylor

Wicked New Orleans

9781596299450

$19.99

A look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic crimes

Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was also considered one of the country's most dangerous cities, with a reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and over one-third of today's French Quarter was considered a hotbed of sin. Tales in this volume include that of the notorious Axeman who plagued the streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prostitute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later was awarded her inheritance.

Paul H. Carlson

Hidden History of the Llano Estacado

9781625858863

$24.99

The Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain, of Texas and eastern New Mexico spreads two hundred miles across what early visitors called an ocean of land. No other place on Earth is quite like it. Humans first inhabited the area more than twelve thousand years ago. Subsequently, settlers came to convert the grassland to ranches and then to sprawling farms. Every new generation performed its duty at this cultural crossroads, from the trade routes established by the comancheros to the fateful meeting between Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley at Lubbock's Cotton Club. Noted West Texas historians Paul H. Carlson and David J. Murrah compiled and edited fifty-six brief stories presenting the Llano Estacado's heritage at its liveliest and most unfamiliar.