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Famous imposter bilked North Carolinians -- The hanging of Frankie Silver -- Lewis Redmond-king of outlaws -- Was the slave a prince? -- Frances Culpeper married three governors -- Amos Owens made "cherry bounce" famous -- Anne Bonney, woman pirate -- "Mr. Read" was a woman -- Naomi Wise memorialized in song -- Naomi Wise rode off to death, not marriage -- Malinda Blalock, North Carolina's only female Civil War soldier -- Otto Wood, famous prison escape artist -- North Carolina governor married fifteen-year-old girl -- Rains brothers of New Bern -- James H. Jones, the president's valet -- One of the South's last duels -- Woman buried seated in chair -- Sam Brinkley was the authority on pogonotrophy -- Cyclone Mack was famed evangelist -- "Indian Chief" was North Carolinian -- Loud hymn singer taken to court -- Ruben C. Bland, champion papa -- Was the "human fly" a Tarheel? -- The Siamese twins -- Charity Bowery, North Carolina slave -- Postmaster had shady reputation -- Father, nine sons fight for Confederacy -- James Iredell Waddell never surrendered -- Six of seven brothers die in civil war -- Blackbeard an unlikely ancestor -- Hanging of Calvin and Thomas Coley -- Martha McFarlane McGee Bell, heroine -- The story of a runaway -- Was Nellie Cropsey murdered? -- North Carolinian held weight record -- Major George E. Preddy Jr., flying ace -- Annie Oakley thrilled Pinehurst residents -- Aunt Abby house was "true grit" -- New Hanover slave finally escapes -- Camden County slave bought his freedom -- Let's honor James Boone this time -- Woman admitted to state bar in 1878 after debate -- Phineas T. Barnum in North Carolina -- Quaint notebook describes North Carolina deaths -- Cross Woodis oldest North Carolinian? -- Battle against "germ of laziness" -- Peter Francisco-Hercules of the revolution -- Tarheel governor was jinxed -- Babe Ruth hit first home run in North Carolina -- L.A. Scruggs, North Carolina's first black doctor -- Hamp rich-North Carolina's champion monument builder -- Boys patrolled North Carolina rural roads -- Largest mail-order liquor business -- Spanish invade North Carolina -- John Lawson's journey -- Tiny Broadwicke, pioneer Aviatrix -- The buggymobile built in New Bern -- Former child prodigy founds Birch Society -- Tarheel banjoist gains new fame -- William Dudley Pelley (part 1) -- William Dudley Pelley (part 2) -- North Carolinian escapes from slavery -- Sir Walter Raleigh's death -- Strange birth in Columbus County -- Twice elected, twice rejected -- Lady Olga, the bearded woman -- Shocco Jones-"the mammoth humbug" -- About the author -- About the co-editors. |
