Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado

by Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: Loiusian State University Press, 1997 SIGNED; FIRST EDITION. Life of Cullen M. Baker the Swamp Fox of the Sulfur (River). Romanticized as a six-gun artist and defender of Old South traditions he was a violent misfit of the Reconstruction period who found acceptance as an enforcer of white supremacy. Murdering unarmed blacks and Freedmen's Bureau agents in the Texas-Arkansas-Louisiana triangle until until his own neighbors rose against him. Offers a portrait of social life and conflict among whites in the post-war South. Black cloth cover with metallic red lettering on spine. NF-/NF with minor dampstaining on 3 pages. Dust jacket near fine with age toning of edges. Maps. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine Minus/Near Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .