Bob O'Connor Books
The store will feature my published books, including five non-fiction, two children's books, and thirteen historical novels. The novels are all well researched and mostly true. Each has a local connection to Jefferson County where I live.
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The Life & Death of Dangerfield Newby
$10.00Reprint of 2005 publication by the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society facilitate by Bob O’Connor books/ The story of one of John Brown’s black raiders. Out-of-print until this month. ALl proceeds go to the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society..
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln As President
$25.00Only book ever written by Abraham Lincoln’s personal bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, a man who was born in Summit Point, Jefferson County, VA (now West Virginia).
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The Perfect Steel Trap Harpers Ferry 1859
$22.00Story of the preparation, raid, capture, trial, and execution of abolitionist John Brown including the never before told story of the raiders who got away.
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The Trail of John Wilkes Booth
$22.00No — John Wilkes Booth did not go to trial. He was killed fleeing authorities. But what if there was a trial? Read the plea from Booth’s attorney Clarence Darrow. Read the testimony of famous witnesses such as Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), Aristotle, and William Shakespeare. How will things turn out for Booth?
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The Trial of Col. Dixon Miles
$22.00The fourth in my trial series of men who didn’t go to trial…and what might have happened. Col. Dixon Miles was the commanding officer of the troops defending Bolivar Heights at Harpers Ferry on September 15, 1862 — just two days before the much more famous Battle of Antietam. Miles surrendered over 12,000 Union soldiers,…
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The Trial of Jefferson Davis
$22.00At the end of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was arrested and held in prison for about two years. But no trial was ever completed. The federal government feared secession would be discussed and perhaps been found legal, which would have been quite an embarrassment after a four-year long war. Here’s what might have happened.
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
$22.00Oswald did not go to trial for the assassination of President John Kennedy — he was shot in the jail by Jack Ruby. What would happen if he went to trial today? Could the prosecution prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt??
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The Trial of Nathan Bedford Forrest
$22.00Fictional account of the trial of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest for the atrocities his men committed at Fort Pillow in 1864
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The U. S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison
$12.00The untold story of the 105 black soldiers incarcerated in the Confederate stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, the most notorious of all Civil War prisons.
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The Virginian Who Might Have Saved Lincoln
$15.00The story of the life of Abraham Lincoln’s personal bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, who was born in Summit Point, Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia)
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Veil of Secrecy — Mrs. Slater The Missing Lincoln Conspirator
$18.00The story of a mysterious Confederate courier and confidante of John Surratt, Jr. who carried documents between Richmond and the Confederate Secret Service in Canada in early 1865. She disappeared during the Lincoln Conspirator trials and was never found.
