Old Timey Crimey #38: Cullen Baker - ”You Bottled Spider”

This week, we talk about Cullen Baker, a man who rarely met a problem he couldn't solve by shooting it. We'll discuss his various horrifying exploits through the Civil War and beyond, his tendency to marry Marthas, and the most Mark Twain day of your life. 

Plus, old timey real dolls, Shakespearean insults, and a country fair that defies basic human decency by celebrating a terrible, terrible racist. 

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Sources: 

Kathy Weiser-Alexander . “Cullen Montgomery Baker: A Very Bad Man.” Legends of America. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/cullen-montgomery-baker/

Bill O’Neal. “Ex-Rebel Cullen Baker Was a Post-War Murdering Madman.” HistoryNet. https://www.historynet.com/how-tennessee-born-killer-cullen-baker-hit-his-stride-after-the-civil-war.htm

Boyd W. Johnson. “Cullen Montgomery Baker the Arkansas-Texas Desperado.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

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