SUNDOWN TOWN
Based on actual events from 1898-99 Pana, Illinois.
Big Henry Stevens leads hundreds of African-American coal miners and their families from Alabama to Illinois. When they arrive, they find instead of good pay for honest work, they were strikebreakers crossing picket lines. Meanwhile, the fledgling United Mine Workers of America was prepared to do whatever was necessary to stop the unsuspecting Blacks.
SIXTEEN TONS
The incredible, violent story of central Illinois coal mining from
1898-1933
Sixteen Tons carries the reader down into the dark, dirty and dangerous coal mines of the early 1900s, as Italian immigrant Antonio Vacca and his sons encounter cave-ins and the deadly black damp deep below the earth’s surface. A story about love, family and community as miners fight to secure a living wage.
THROW OUT THE WATER
The exciting and highly
anticipated sequel to Sixteen Tons
Throw Out the Water continues the saga of the Vacca, Eng, Harrison and Hiler families as they choose sides in the bloody Christian County Coal Mine War that took place in Illinois from 1933 to 1937.
THIRTEEN STEPS FOR CHARLIE BIRGER
“Yes, I’ve killed men,
but never a good one.”
Charlie Birger’s legend might have begun the day the sheriff allowed him to keep his Tommy gun in the jail cell with him. Or it might have begun the year he teamed up with the notorious Shelton Gang to fight a bloody war against Glenn Young and his 3,000 Ku Klux Klan members. Others might say it was how he lived his life, or, more importantly, how he ultimately died. No matter the reasons for Charlie’s fame, everyone agrees he left behind a trail of gruesome corpses.
BOOTLEGGER HEAVEN
Sequel to 13 Steps
Bootleggers Carl Shelton and Black Charlie Harris; on separate paths that could only end with one of them killing the other. Black Charlie resented the brothers fame and fortune. He lacked the ability to do anything about it until Carl framed him and got him ten years in Leavenworth. In prison he learned from master criminals how to kill without mercy.
ALL BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AT THE MUSEUM, at AMAZON IN PAPERBACK, AND KINDLE
MEET THE AUTHOR
Kevin Corley [email protected]
After retiring from a career as an educator, Kevin Corley turned to his love of writing as a way to retell the stories he had shared with history students in his classroom. He writes novels as a way to inspire young people to enjoy and understand history.
Based on actual events from 1898-99 Pana, Illinois.
Big Henry Stevens leads hundreds of African-American coal miners and their families from Alabama to Illinois. When they arrive, they find instead of good pay for honest work, they were strikebreakers crossing picket lines. Meanwhile, the fledgling United Mine Workers of America was prepared to do whatever was necessary to stop the unsuspecting Blacks.
SIXTEEN TONS
The incredible, violent story of central Illinois coal mining from
1898-1933
Sixteen Tons carries the reader down into the dark, dirty and dangerous coal mines of the early 1900s, as Italian immigrant Antonio Vacca and his sons encounter cave-ins and the deadly black damp deep below the earth’s surface. A story about love, family and community as miners fight to secure a living wage.
THROW OUT THE WATER
The exciting and highly
anticipated sequel to Sixteen Tons
Throw Out the Water continues the saga of the Vacca, Eng, Harrison and Hiler families as they choose sides in the bloody Christian County Coal Mine War that took place in Illinois from 1933 to 1937.
THIRTEEN STEPS FOR CHARLIE BIRGER
“Yes, I’ve killed men,
but never a good one.”
Charlie Birger’s legend might have begun the day the sheriff allowed him to keep his Tommy gun in the jail cell with him. Or it might have begun the year he teamed up with the notorious Shelton Gang to fight a bloody war against Glenn Young and his 3,000 Ku Klux Klan members. Others might say it was how he lived his life, or, more importantly, how he ultimately died. No matter the reasons for Charlie’s fame, everyone agrees he left behind a trail of gruesome corpses.
BOOTLEGGER HEAVEN
Sequel to 13 Steps
Bootleggers Carl Shelton and Black Charlie Harris; on separate paths that could only end with one of them killing the other. Black Charlie resented the brothers fame and fortune. He lacked the ability to do anything about it until Carl framed him and got him ten years in Leavenworth. In prison he learned from master criminals how to kill without mercy.
ALL BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AT THE MUSEUM, at AMAZON IN PAPERBACK, AND KINDLE
MEET THE AUTHOR
Kevin Corley [email protected]
After retiring from a career as an educator, Kevin Corley turned to his love of writing as a way to retell the stories he had shared with history students in his classroom. He writes novels as a way to inspire young people to enjoy and understand history.
