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Kingdom of Devils
The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
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Kingdom of Devils
The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
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The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
âIn Cold Blood for the 1790s ⊠Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.ââJane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jeffersonâs Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then anotherâa dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killersâtwo men with hazy backgroundsâare brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, thatâs too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United Statesâ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous yearsâa time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytellingâand driven by a historianâs obsessive detective workâKingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images designed to complement your listening experience.
