The Legend of Buster Duggan & The Story of One of His Victims by Jerald Rudolph Burke ~Tennessee Outlaw/Murderer ~True Crime ~McMinn County

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Title: The Legend of Buster Duggan and The Story of One of His Victims

Author: Jerald Rudolph Burke and Elizabeth S. Howard

Description: First printing. Hardcover. Spine very lightly cocked; light scuff on rear cover. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper; tiny spots of soiling on a couple pages, else interior is clean. 28 illustrations on plates, mostly from historic photographs. xiv +202, [1] pages.

The dramatized story of outlaw, moonshiner and notorious murderer William Winfield ''Buster'' Duggan (1879-1914), active in southeast Tennessee and northeast Alabama in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The uncle of co-author Jerald Burke was one of the many men murdered by Buster. The account begins with the account of Duggan's first murder in February 1897, traces his rise to infamy, covers the murder the aforesaid uncle, and concludes with his eventual death at the hands of local lawmen. The account is based on many years of research by the retired writer and editor for the Atlanta Journal, Jerald Rudolph Burke (1916-2002), assisted with the final copy by the DeKalb County local historian Elizabeth Simmons Howard (1926-2020).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: [Professional Press]
Place: [Chapel Hill, NC]
Year: 1997

Keywords: history, outlaws, moonshiners, murderers, crime, criminals, Etowah, McMinn County, Monroe County, Tennessee, William Winfield Duggan,

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