A cavern on the lower Ohio River served as a lair for counterfeiters, highwaymen and river pirates in the decades around 1800. Rothert sifts histories, court records and legend to tell the stories of the murderous Harpe brothers, of Samuel Mason’s robberies on the Natchez Trace, and of the coiners and the Ford’s Ferry mystery.
A careful 1924 history of frontier crime that reads like a thriller, for anyone drawn to the early American West. Download the free EPUB.