{"id":8816,"date":"2011-01-10T19:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:54:17","slug":"book-report-missouri-bandits-bushwhackers-outlaws-crooks-devils-ghosts-desperadoes-by-carole-marsh-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/book-report-missouri-bandits-bushwhackers-outlaws-crooks-devils-ghosts-desperadoes-by-carole-marsh-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Missouri Bandits, Bushwhackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, &#038; Desperadoes<\/i> by Carole Marsh (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a title like this, I&#8217;d hoped for a collection of thought-provoking and perhaps article-launching anecdotes.  Instead, I got a young adult book self-published in a very rudimentary style circa 1990.  How rudimentary?  The pages are only printed on one side, the dust jacket is a stock dust jacket with the title pasted on, possibly from work-at-home-in-your-spare-time people, and the pages were designed with DOS-based, if that, desktop publishing not far above the old Print Shop software.  And the author liked to make things fun by putting wingdings in words.  I kid you not.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/marshbook.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p>Revel in that glory.<\/p>\n<p>And for all that, the pieces in the book aren&#8217;t that specific to Missouri.  There are some things about Ma Barker and whatnot, but then they get into President Lincoln&#8217;s ghost in the White House, word finds with synonyms for Thief, jokes, and urban legends set elsewhere in the Midwest.  All the better for the recycling of the material.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, apparently Carole Marsh made a go of this judging by the sheer number of titles associate with her.  Good for her.  However, I cannot recommend anything from this book.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=079330671X\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a title like this, I&#8217;d hoped for a collection of thought-provoking and perhaps article-launching anecdotes. Instead, I got a young adult book self-published in a very rudimentary style circa 1990. How rudimentary? The pages are only printed on one side, the dust jacket is a stock dust jacket with the title pasted on, possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}