Wicked Asheville
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- Tales -- North Carolina -- Asheville
- Outlaws -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History -- Anecdotes
- Electronic books
- Crime -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History -- Anecdotes
- Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Anecdotes
- Corruption -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History -- Anecdotes
- Asheville (N.C.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes
- Criminals -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History -- Anecdotes
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Wicked Asheville
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Wicked Asheville
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Summary
Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself "America's Hitler" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough antiwar propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease
Target audience
adult
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