Photos for Blood River Rising
Me hiking with my loyal research assistants from the book, Jack (left) and Ace (right).
Thank you to the Crismon and Thompson families for the black and white pictures. The color pictures were taken by or for the author.
Another view of the Crismon house showing its close proximity to the road on which the Thompsons had to travel to get to Bagnell.
Book signing at the Miller Country Museum, October, 2016.
Left: Otto Thompson's grandson Phillip and son Kevin with author. Middle: Namesake Grant Thompson, son of Hadley and Icel's adopted nephew Greg Byler and his wife. Right: The author at the old courthouse in Tuscumbia where the trials in the book were held.
The picture above shows men at the roundabout in Bagnell, manually changing the direction of the engine. The Bagnell “spur” was a dead end stop with one track used to go back and forth to Eldon.