Looking Back: From the Pages of the Times & Transcript - True Stories of Pirate Mysteries, Buried Treasure, Train Wrecks, Historic Storms, Disasters at Sea, Spies, Con Men, Tragedies, Scandals, Crime & Punishment..by the Author of "Glimpses o

by Soucoup, Dan ...with intro by Edith Robb

First Edition

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Maritime Lines , 2002. ....Large format soft cover (not large print), viii + 394 pages, tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, no names, illustrated through-out with drawings, maps and b & w photos. "In Looking Back, Dan Soucoup has dipped deep into the rich lore of the Maritimes to create an entertaining book that attempts to sort out these lively accounts of crime and punishment, the wild Prohibition era, ship wrecks, railways, war and conflict, scandals and political controveries." Contents include: Intro by Edith Robb / Fact & Fiction of the Pirate Age / Fundy Bay's Treasure Island / Captain Kidd Was a Scapegoat / Piracy on the Fishing Grounds / Maritime Privateers - Legal Pirates / Black Mogul's Castaway / Mutiny On the Veronica / The Search for Acadian Gold / Sam Napier's Magnificent Gold Nugget / The Black Summer 1816 / The Great Yankee Gale / The Gigantic Fundy Flood / The Atlantic Cyclone 1873 / Disaster Off Escuminac / When Mice Ate Everything / Famous Old Shipwrecks Sites / The Transatlantic Steamship Race Tragedy / Jerome the Mystery Man / Rexton & The Mary Celeste / Women and Children Go Last / Early Railways and Locomotives / The Piggyback Railway / Early Railway Dreams / The Million Dollar Fire / Champion of the People's Railway / Creation of the CNR / Branch Lines Everywhere / Train Crash on the M & B Line / The Barnes Circus Train Wreck / Fine Old Railway Stations / The Circus Train Came to Town / First Hockey Night in Canada / Acadia's Militant Missionary / Petitcodiac Privateer Beausoleil Brossard / Colonel Robert Monckton / Old Forts of Chignecto / Russian Revolution Began in Amherst / The Year of the Spanish Flu / Imprisonment of the Mayor of Montreal / Escaped Nazis in Wartime Canada / Wartime Enemies, Spies & Aliens / Shediac's New Light Murder / New Brunswick's Most Wanted Man / The Murder of William End / The Day The Police Were Fired / The Donnelly House Homicide / The Tim McCarthy Affair / Mysterious Death of Mabel Stevens / The Slow End to Public Executions / A Bungled Bank Burglary / The Meadow Brook Tragedy / Westmortand's Last Hanging / The Great Salisbury Bank Heist / Albert County's Daring Bank Robbery / When Demon Rum Was King / Prohibition Liquor King Joe Walnut / Big Fundy Shore Booze Raid / Smuggler's Haven - Kent County / Prohibition Pirates - It Beats Carrying Sardines / The Contentious Prohibiton Years / Slavery, Racism & Neglect / Border Wars At Chignecto / Governor's Arrest in Moncton / Duelling and the Code of Honour / The Arrest of John T Hawke / Politics & the Ku Klux Klan / The Stagecoach & Roadhouses / The Pony Express & Telegraph The Creation of Standard Time Zones / Milestones in Bridge Construction / The Controversial Early Automobiles / The McKay Motor Car / Last Days of Old-Time Travel / Airlines & Airports / Sources. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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