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History of Lexington Conference is a mid-twentieth century review of the Conference from 1869 to 1950. The Lexington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in Harrodsburg, KY, in 1869. It was the third conference created for African Americans. Prior to 1869, African Americans in Kentucky were members of the Kentucky Annual Conference. The First Lexington Conference was held in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1870 and included churches in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In 1869 the Conference consisted of 11 churches, 10 ordained ministers, and 1500 members. By 1947 the Conference had 137 church buildings and a membership of 39,000. It continued to hold annual conferences until 1964 when it became part of the Cleveland District of the North East Ohio Conference. This brief history includes historical and statistical data, lists of delegates and conference locations, and also many photographs of bishops and contemporary administrators and secretaries.

More Rawhides was Charles M. Russell's sequel to his popular Rawhide Rollins Stories, published in 1921. More Rawhides was published in 1925 and was reprinted only once in 1946. This edition is a facsimile of the 1946 edition and features Russell's original drawings.

This is a new reprint of the 1912 classic calendar poetry book by James Whitcomb Riley. Each month is illustrated in the Arts & Crafts style with beautiful color woodcuts by Gustave Baumann. There is a full page poem and one full page illustration for each month.

A classic collection of Halloween Tales & Games written by Ethel Owen and beautifully illustrated by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard. There are, appropriately, thirteen selections. Originally published in 1928, this is a new facsimile edition.

Blood on the Moon (1931) is Tully's fifth and final book in what he called his Underworld Edition-a series of autobiographical books focusing on different aspects of his childhood and youth. As the concluding book in the series, Tully looks back at subjects from the previous four Underworld books. There are hobo stories that would have fit well in Beggars of Life, there are Hughie Tully's stories that could have come from Shanty Irish, the Great Slavinsky would have been at home in Circus Parade, and there are grifters who could have plied their trade in Shadows of Men. There's also the brutal description of the 1906 World Lightweight title fight between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson. The fight went an incredible 42 rounds in 100 degree heat and Tully's description is as tough and vicious as anything that would later appear in Tully's classic boxing novel, The Bruiser. And in the chapter "Ladies in the Parlor," Tully describes the women who work in a brothel with sympathy but without romanticizing them.

The idea of men in jail had interested Jim Tully for years, going back to his youthful reading of Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead and his own time in jail and on a work crew. It was to this subject that he turned with Shadows of Men. He had already written about drifters and the underworld in Beggars of Life and Circus Parade, but those episodes were, respectively, part of his larger story of life as a road kid and working for a small-time circus. Shadows of Men would be different. Its first eighteen chapters focused exclusively on the brutal aspects of his road years. These chapters are set in hobo camps, boxcars, railroad yards, jails, and cotton fields. As Tully wrote in the foreword to a later book, Blood on the Moon, Shadows of Men, "contains the tribulations, vagaries and hallucinations of men in jail." Shadows of Men, unsparing in its depiction of bleak people and places at cruel edges of the American landscape, was the book that cemented that reputation.

Mountain Feuds of Eastern Kentucky is a new reprint of a short memoir written by Noah M. Reynolds (1866-1955) about his family's feuds, in particular with the Wright family. The book is 5x7 inches with 45 pages.

Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he settled in Kent, Ohio where he boxed professionally and began to write. Following a move to Hollywood where he worked for Charlie Chaplin, Tully issued a stream of critically acclaimed books that serve as a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass. Having established himself as a major American author, he turned his attention to Hollywood writing dozens of articles about the movies, often shocking the Hollywood establishment. Along the way, he picked up such close friends as W. C. Fields, Jack Dempsey, H. L. Mencken, and Frank Capra. He also memorably crossed paths with Jack London, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Langston Hughes.

The true story of how Detroit's Purple-Licavoli Gang took over Toledo and its aftermath. Prohibition and Toledo's proximity to rum-running routes made it an ideal target of organized crime and the author details how the takeover was implemented and how corruption eased the process.

In "Queen City Yesterdays," William C. Smith describes the everyday life of his youth in the West End of 1880s Cincinnati. Short chapters describe in detail material and cultural life in urban Cincinnati: Central Avenue, School Days, Games, Chores, Literary Fare, Eating Habits, Social Customs, Entertainment, Sartorial Scenery, Cincinnati Saloon, Tailpiece. This is a reprint of the original 1959 edition.

Originally published in 1960 and long out-of-print, William E. Scheele's The Mound Builders is still a valuable archaeological introduction to early American peoples, in particular the Hopewell and Adena of Ohio. It is intended for younger readers (ages 8-12) with larger easy to read text, and illustrations by the author.

Clovernook: Home for the Blind is a brief history originally published in 1957. Clovernook was built on the grounds of the home of noted poets Alice and Phoebe Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Within a decade it became one of the most innovative homes for the blind, incorporating a weaving shop and, importantly, a braille press which, by the 1920s, was the second leading publisher of braille books in the country. It remains to this day one of the largest braille producers in the world. This brief history traces Clovernook's origins to the middle of the twentieth century.

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1886 edition. After its initial 3-month service, the 4th OVI mustered in for three years' service at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio in June of 1861. It served in many minor and major battles, including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.

How to be a Medium is a detailed description and manual for all aspects of Mediumship. Its two parts are The Development and Practice of Mediumship and The Meaning of Mediumship.

127 pp. Color illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the 1926 Peters Ammunition Catalogue #40. At this time, Peters was based in Kings Mills, Ohio, on the banks of the Little Miami River, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati.

John Cabell Chenault lived with his family in Madison County, Kentucky, during the Civil War. Later in his life he recounted his experiences in a manuscript, forming the basis of this book, which was, after his death in 1924, edited and completed by Jonathan Truman Dorris. Although expressing some ambivalence about the existence of slavery, Chenault's reminiscences ultimately espoused the more typical 19th century description of a "benevolent institution" in Madison County. It also described aspects of everyday life in a small rural central Kentucky community, as well as Confederate and Union activity in the region, in particular the Battle of Richmond in 1862. Originally published in 1936, Old Cane Springs remains today a useful contribution to the history of the county and Kentucky.

J.A. Richards's History of Bath County is still today an important contribution to the history of the county and Kentucky.

Perhaps few other frontiersmen of the early Revolutionary period were as complicated as the notorious Simon Girty. A native of Pennsylvania, Girty spent years of his childhood as a captive of the Seneca, eventually assimilating into its culture. During Lord Dunmore's War, Girty fought alongside Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone as a spy and scout for the British forces. Although initially supporting the Americans in the Revolution, Girty switched sides in 1778 and fought the remainder of the war against the colonials. After the war, Girty continued to fight against American encroachment on native territories. He settled in Canada and died there in 1818. His unusual life reflected the decades during which the "middle ground" was built and contested by native Americans and the British and French colonial empires.

Hill Man, set in the Kentucky Hills, is the story of the ambitious and lustful Rady Cromwell and three women. According to Giles, Rady was emblematic of men in his time and place, "men who know no law but their own wills and desires, and have no evidence of conscience. Rady is no fiction. He is fact." Hill Man was the only novel Janice Holt Giles wrote using a pseudonym. Although appreciative of her first publisher, the religiously oriented Westminster Press, she became increasingly dismayed that editors trimmed her books down "to pure sweetness and light." Hill Man was her most provocative work and also allowed her to experiment in the racier mass market paperback genre. Citing concern for her burgeoning reputation (having published her first four books with a religious publisher and the last with Houghton Mifflin), Janice elected to use the pseudonym John Garth. After Hill Man, she settled in to producing the historical fiction that for the most part defined her literary career.

In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering, but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One cannot over estimate the importance of this book in shaping the destiny of United States of America, as it was here that our constitutional form of government was first suggested.

Facsimile reprint of the 1934 edition. An account of Ohio Shawnee life and culture with some pioneer history and genealogy. It is mostly focused on the Xenia, Ohio, area. The author was the great grandson of James Galloway, Sr., a member of George Rogers Clark's 1782 expedition against the Shawnee, but later a friend of Tecumtha (Tecumseh), whose great-grandson was a friend of the author and attests to the book's accuracy.

An account of the Black Tobacco wars of Kentucky and Tennessee told by a participant, John G. Miller, who was an attorney that represented plaintiffs against "Night Riders," the enforcers of local tobacco associations.

In another installment in his series on the organized crime Syndicate run by Meyer Lansky, investigative reporter Hank Messick details how the group moved its operations into the Bahamas following the Cuban Revolution. Relying more on moxie than muscle, and the bribe than violence, the Syndicate worked itself into Bahamian banks, board rooms, and the halls of political power. Ultimately, Lansky and his boys helped establish modern casino gambling in the Bahamas, which funneled American tourist cash into Syndicate coffers.

From Prohibition rum-running on the Great Lakes to casino-style gambling in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky, and finally to shimmering Las Vegas, the Cleveland Syndicate evolved from an outright criminal organization into a "respectable" enterprise. In this first volume of his Syndicate books, Hank Messick details the origins and rise of organized crime in America, with particular emphasis on the Cleveland Four: Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Louis Rothkopf, and Samuel Tucker. Along the way he introduces readers to Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, "Trigger" Mike Coppola, and other notable gangsters, lawmen, financiers, and murderers.