Crowley County Combined Library

Biography of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, two brothers and accomplished actors, who held opposing views politically and one of who shot Abraham Lincoln.

"The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President...

Most books about Abraham Lincoln end with his assassination. But that historic event is where this book begins. “The Last Lincolns” tells the largely unknown tale of the Lincoln family's fall from grace in the years and generations following the president's murder. Far from coming together in mourning, the Lincolns became deeply divided over the widowed Mary's mental condition. In 1875, the eldest son Robert had her committed to an insane asylum....

Offers a provocative new look at the motive behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the bitter sibling rivalry that led John Wilkes Booth to murder him.

A six part program which examines the Lincolns' family life and marriage, Abraham Lincoln's presidency, and the Civil War era.

A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.

It chronicles how five generations of one American family have shared the "glorious burden" of collecting, preserving and documenting a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the Civil War, Peter Kunhardt's ancestors, in particular, his great- grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve, collected photographs that might have been lost forever.

For all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincolns own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South. Several Todds - including Mary herself - bedeviled Lincolns administration...