Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Warren, Joshua P.

Description

1. 144 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

1. "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."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

1. Criminals
2. Outlaws
3. Corruption
4. Crime
5. Tales
6. Criminals > North Carolina > Asheville > History > Anecdotes
7. Asheville (N.C.) > History > Anecdotes
8. Asheville (N.C.) > Biography > Anecdotes
9. Tales > North Carolina > Asheville
10. History
11. Biography > Anecdotes
12. Diseases > North Carolina > Asheville > History > Anecdotes
13. Outlaws > North Carolina > Asheville > History > Anecdotes
14. Anecdotes
15. Corruption > North Carolina > Asheville > History > Anecdotes
16. Crime > North Carolina > Asheville > History > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

1. Anecdotes.
2. Biography – Anecdotes.
3. History.

Contents

1. Foreword / by Joshua P. Warren -- Murder and mayhem. The Night Evil Came to Town ; Murder at the Battery Park Hotel ; Wicked to the Bone ; Halloween Horror ; The Babyface Killer -- Sedition and corruption. America's Hitler ; Bank Fraud ; Corruption and the Saga of Sheriff Bobby Medford -- Arson. Remembering Zelda ; Thomas Wolfe House ; Richmond Hill Inn ; Igniting Controversy -- Wicked diseases. Tuberculosis ; Spanish Influenza 1918-19 ; Asheville's Polio Epidemic ; Stranger than Fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 19-661

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.

Author

1. Milling, Marla Hardee, author.

Title

1. Wicked Asheville / Marla Hardee Milling ; foreword by Joshua P. Warren.

Publisher

1. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.

Added author

1. Warren, Joshua P., writer of introduction.

LCCN

1. 2018942443

ISBN

1. 1467138800 paperback
2. 9781467138802 paperback

Research call number

1. JFE 19-661