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Thieves Rascals Sore Losers The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska Marilyn June Coffey 9780996139915 Books

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Thieves Rascals Sore Losers The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska Marilyn June Coffey 9780996139915 Books

You wouldn't think a history of the settling of Harlan County, Nebraska would be all that interesting unless you came from Harlan County, Nebraska. Think again. Coffey tells some lurid tales of dirty politics, dirty deeds, and dirty tricks with relish and humor. What makes it all especially poignant is that I found more than a few that remind me of the shenanigans going on in Kansas right now.


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Thieves Rascals Sore Losers The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska Marilyn June Coffey 9780996139915 Books Reviews

Thieves, Rascals & Sore Losers, the Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska. The title says it all. M. Coffey revisits Nebraska in the 1800's with colorful prose and memorable characters. Her light touch sets humor against the facts and makes for informative, entertaining reading.
Thieves, Rascals, and Sore Losers by Marilyn Coffey is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late June.

While not necessarily taking on a "gosh darn varmit" tone, its story-length chapters feel almost like they're verbally transcribed.
Impressed with the amount of research that had to have gone into this and that Ms. Coffey has so skillfully distilled into clear, well-written stories that bring to life the frontier life in Nebraska, the personal and political struggles for land and power. Present day life here in Omaha seems tame compared to the days of busting sod, cheating and fighting the Indian tribes and vyeing for county seats. When horses broke legs on wild terrain instead of cars busting axles in potholes. This is a clear-eyed, unsentimental account of those days when European settlers brought their dreams to this new land but needed to displace the Indians in order to do it. And then they squabbled over how to run things after they settled in. (Okay, that still sounds like present day Nebraska.) I enjoyed Ms.Coffey's wit and humor describing all these thieves, rascals and sore losers.
I received a free electronic copy of this interesting history from Netgalley, Marilyn Coffey, and Concierge Marketing, Omega Cottonwood Press in exchange for an honest review. Thank you, for sharing your work with me.

And this is an honest, intimate, enlightening review of the folks who settled and populated that part of the Louisiana Purchase that became the great state of Nebraska. I laughed till I cried, it is in places that funny. And, truthfully, it is joyous to read of an American state population who can top New Mexico in the fiercely independent populous and dirty tricks government men. I now feel a kinship with the cornhusker state....
Nebraska, the Cornhusker State, doesn't grace many pages in U.S. History textbooks, but not for a lack of trying. Though often overshadowed by the more flashy of the Union (California, New York, Texas, and Louisiana, to name a few) Nebraska has as deep and eccentric a history as the best of them, and Marilyn June Coffey does her state true justice in "Thieves, Rascals, and Sore Losers."

Written in an approachable and amusing manner, Coffey takes us on a journey to Harlan County, and the hijinks of territorial disputes, the Civil War, and stuffed ballot boxes that plagued her birthplace at its, well, birth.

Surely a book all Americans should read, and anyone seeking a more diverse historical text than the run-of-the-mill wars & standard politics all too common with American textbooks. (Also, the ebook is built very nicely!)

(I was given a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
A fascinating, very educational trip into the past
I wish there were more books like this to cover the history of Nebraska. As time passes, these stories are lost.
You wouldn't think a history of the settling of Harlan County, Nebraska would be all that interesting unless you came from Harlan County, Nebraska. Think again. Coffey tells some lurid tales of dirty politics, dirty deeds, and dirty tricks with relish and humor. What makes it all especially poignant is that I found more than a few that remind me of the shenanigans going on in Kansas right now.