Otto A. Rothert, secretary of the Filson Club of Louisville for manyyears, was the author of A History of Muhlenberg County and other books.
"From 1795 through 1820, the rock-ribbed walls of the Cave-in-Rock cavern echoed the drunken hilarity of villains and witnessed the death struggles of many a vanquished man. Otto A. Rothert chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of river pirates and highway-men who operated in and around the famous Cave-in-Rock."--Metropolis Planet "This book is intended to give the authentic account of the famous Cave-in-Rock of the lower Ohio River...and to present verified accounts of the most notorious of those highwaymen and river pirates who in the early days of the Middle West and South filled the Mississippi basin with the alarm and terror of their crimes and exploits."--Otto A. Rothert
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