The Banditti of the Prairies: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley: An Authentic Narrative of Thrilling Adventures in the Earliest Settlement of the Wes - Paperback

by Paul-Thomas Ferguson (Author), Teresa Johnston (Illustrator), Carrie Clark (Author)

Frontier adventurer and private detective Edward Bonney (1807-1864) tells the story of his hunt for the men responsible for the torture-murder of prominent Illinois pioneer Colonel George Davenport, as well as his efforts to crush the early midwestern criminal enterprise known as the Banditti of the Prairies. Follow Bonney on this dangerous quest, from Rock Island, to Nauvoo and St. Louis - hunting criminals in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.