- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Globe Pequot; First edition (Oct 5 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0762759682
- ISBN-13: 978-0762759682
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #455,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“The Wild American West be damned! Matthew P. Mayo’s Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks is a fascinating—and often absolutely blood-curdling—narrative of New England’s darkest and grittiest historical incidents and characters. By a consummate storyteller with a lively, entertaining voice, Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks is American history at its most violent and authentic. Edgar Allan Poe would have loved every story in it.”
—Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author of A Stranger in the Kingdom, Where the Rivers Flow North, and Walking to Gatlinburg
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The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history and present them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
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Fascinating book on New England history!, Mar 11 2011
By Jane LeGard - Published on Amazon.com
For anyone interested in tidbits of history about New England, I HIGHLY recommend this book. Told in short stories, it completely fascinated me and Im so glad to have heard about this book from an interview with the author on Vermont Public Radio.
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Page-turning history of New England by a guy who knows New England!, April 14 2011
By Andrew Vietze - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England (Paperback)
Gritty indeed. These stories paint a fascinating portrait of a fascinating place (one where I'm lucky enough to live). Matthew P. Mayo brings the compelling writing style he's developed in his fiction to some of the most intriguing tales of old New England. Apparently, he's lived in several states in our nation's northeast corner - he definitely seems to know the people and places. This is rich stuff. I felt like I was learning a lot, but at the same time I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to check out some of his novels now.Andrew Vietze, Appleton, Maine
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Gritty History from a Great Writer Makes for a Great Read, Dec 14 2010
By Jeremy LC Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England (Paperback)
Matthew P. Mayo is a master of starting as irresistibly close to the action as possible. In his fiction and his non-fiction, he opens with just enough that you care about his characters and then he hits that character fast and hard. Mayo's sentences are lean, tough and graceful. His writing has a powerful sense of moment and of scene, of gesture and of other human subtleties.Cowboys, Mountain Men, & Grizzly Bears and Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks tell fifty tales each of some of the most harrowing moments in their respective regions. These aren't dry recountings or glossy propaganda.
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks contains stories of swamp fights, death rides, and massacres, of pirates, rum-runners, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of extraordinary circumstances.
Cowboys, Mountain Men, & Grizzly Bears features stories about gunfights, death marches, and grizzly wrestling, of narrow escapes, deadly winters, and cannibalism.
These are gritty stories - stories, as he says in the introduction of Bootleggers, of "showing courage, resolve, and pluck in one's daily life, of being tough and uncompromising in the face of adversity." Indeed, both of Mayo's Grittiest Moments books read like Loren D. Estleman and Jim Thompson got together to re-write a Stephen Ambrose history book.
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