Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Postcard: Natchez Trace: Natchez Trace Parkway

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Postcard: Natchez Trace: Natchez Trace Parkway

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Title Postcard: Natchez Trace: Natchez Trace Parkway
Author/Photographer McCormack, D. F.
Time Period circa 1960s
Description Notorious highwaymen, including the Harpe brothers and Samuel Mason's gang, robbed and murdered travelers along the Natchez Trace in the late 18th-century. For more information, see Blood & Ink, entry W.12 and The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock by Otto A. Rothert (1924).

Caption: "Natchez Trace Parkway ... Yowani Overlook and picnic area, near the historical town of French Camp, Mississippi."


General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 postcard
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the Crime-Related Postcards collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original postcard
Subject Outlaws, Bandits
Provenance Crime-Related Postcards collection
Genre/Format postcards
Geographical Location United States. Mississippi

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