Murder & Mayhem in Nashville

Murder & Mayhem in Nashville

By Brian Allison

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Publication Date: 3rd October 2016

Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past.


Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant for poison once strolled the city streets. Legends range from Andrew Jackson's bar fight with Senator Thomas Hart Benton to the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders. In 1938, a state penitentiary fugitive escape triggered a tragic gunfight.
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    Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past.


    Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant for poison once strolled the city streets. Legends range from Andrew Jackson's bar fight with Senator Thomas Hart Benton to the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders. In 1938, a state penitentiary fugitive escape triggered a tragic gunfight.
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    Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past.


    Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant for poison once strolled the city streets. Legends range from Andrew Jackson's bar fight with Senator Thomas Hart Benton to the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders. In 1938, a state penitentiary fugitive escape triggered a tragic gunfight.

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    • Pages: 144
    • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
    • Imprint: The History Press
    • Series: Murder & Mayhem
    • Publication Date: 3rd October 2016
    • State: Tennessee
    • Illustration Note: Black and White
    • ISBN: 9781467135733
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
      TRUE CRIME / General
      HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    Reviews

    "Like most conflicts, the end of the Civil War was neither simple nor painless. In the winter of 1865 the military and civil authorities of Nashville were pushed to their breaking point by an unprecedented outbreak of violent crime.

    Bringing law back to the city would require a remarkable partnership between the occupied and the occupiers. Nashville historian Brian Allison, examine (s) how this did and did not work as well as the repercussions involved." Clarksville Post
    Author Bio
    A lifelong native of Nashville, Brian Allison comes by his interest in the city's past naturally. He has worked for more than twenty years in the field of public history at museums such as Travellers Rest and the Hermitage. He has worked in film and appeared on television as a guest speaker for shows like the History Channel's America's Secret Slang and Blood and Fury for the American Heroes Channel. He is also the author of Murder and Mayhem in Nashville, released by The History Press in 2016.

    Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past.


    Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant for poison once strolled the city streets. Legends range from Andrew Jackson's bar fight with Senator Thomas Hart Benton to the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders. In 1938, a state penitentiary fugitive escape triggered a tragic gunfight.

    • Pages: 144
    • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
    • Imprint: The History Press
    • Series: Murder & Mayhem
    • Publication Date: 3rd October 2016
    • State: Tennessee
    • Illustrations Note: Black and White
    • ISBN: 9781467135733
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
      TRUE CRIME / General
      HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

    "Like most conflicts, the end of the Civil War was neither simple nor painless. In the winter of 1865 the military and civil authorities of Nashville were pushed to their breaking point by an unprecedented outbreak of violent crime.

    Bringing law back to the city would require a remarkable partnership between the occupied and the occupiers. Nashville historian Brian Allison, examine (s) how this did and did not work as well as the repercussions involved." Clarksville Post
    A lifelong native of Nashville, Brian Allison comes by his interest in the city's past naturally. He has worked for more than twenty years in the field of public history at museums such as Travellers Rest and the Hermitage. He has worked in film and appeared on television as a guest speaker for shows like the History Channel's America's Secret Slang and Blood and Fury for the American Heroes Channel. He is also the author of Murder and Mayhem in Nashville, released by The History Press in 2016.

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