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Title and Credits Page |
This is the complete title and credits page from The Trail of the Dead Years |
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Charles Lewis & Josephine Madeline Dudding |
The author's parents and Lloyd Ivan Dudding's great grandparents were pioneer farmers in West Virginia before and during the U.S. Civil War. |
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The Dudding Homestead |
Near Culloden, West Virginia where Dr. Earl Ellicott Dudding, the author of, "The Trail of the Dead Years", was raised. |
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West View of the Dudding Homestead |
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The Author Before It Happened |
Earl Ellicott Dudding, the author of, "The Trail of the Dead Years", was a prosperous business man before his ordeal. |
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Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company -- Chicago |
Earl Ellicott Dudding, the author of, "The Trail of the Dead Years", is in charge of a delegation of West Virginia merchants buying trip to Chicago. |
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Where It Happened |
Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Train Station in Huntington, West Virginia where the tragedy took place. |
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Cabell County Courthouse, Huntington, WV |
Earl Ellicott Dudding's trial took place. |
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Jail and Relatives |
Cabell County Jail and Author's sister Effie Mae Dudding Hosey and Mrs. Maggie Dudding, Author's wife, Margaret. |
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Jail Rear View & Author's Family |
Cabell County Jail and Author's wife, and two children. |
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Graphic Story of the Author's Dead Years |
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station, boarding the train for prison, ready to move, arrival at prison and finally return to Huntington five years later. |
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Where the Dead Years were spent |
Front view, West Virginia State Penitentiary. |
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Walls of North Hall |
West Virginia State Penitentiary, where the Author did his time. |
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Convicts of West Virginia State Penitentiary |
This photograph includes Dr. Dudding and was taken when he had 22 more months to serve. |
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Noonday Rations |
Convicts about to partake of the vile grub, blacks and whites intermingled. |
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Convicts in line waiting to be flogged |
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The Author ready to leave prison |
January 2, 1914, having turned 42 in October, pale and worn; but eager to start on the trail after the Dead Years, is Earl Ellicott Dudding. |
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Judge John T. Graham & William Winfred Smith, Esq. |
Left: Judge John T. Graham, Huntington, WV, for ten years Judge of the Cabell County Circuit Court. Lifelong friend and attorney of the Author.
Right: William Winfred Smith, Esq. Attorney at Law of Huntington, the Editor of this book; picture taken on Court House lawn by Dr. Dudding. |
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First Huntington National Bank Building & Miss Evalyn Abbott |
Left: First Huntington National Bank Building, where the Prisoners Relief Society was organized, and where the Editor, W. W. Smith, has his law offices.
Right: Miss Evalyn Abbott, while Secretary of the Prisoners Relief Society. |
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The Author |
The Author at the time he was doing intensive prison reform work. |
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge |
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge, spanning the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, at Parkersburg, West Virginia on the road to Moundsville Prison. |
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Convicts at work & penitentiary walls |
Top: Convicts at work in prison shop.
Bottom: Inside view of the penitentiary walls. |
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Miss Letha Watts and Dr. Dudding |
Miss Letha Watts and Dr. Dudding in the Huntington office working out prisoners' relief problems. |
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Directors of the Prisoners Relief Society |
Directors of the Prisoners Relief Society on an inspection tour, West Virginia Penitentiary. |
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South Hall, Moundsville Prison |
South Hall, Moundsville Prison, showing tower where men were flogged marked X |
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Baltimore & Ohio crack train |
Baltimore & Ohio crack train, Capitol Limited, New York to Chicago, west of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (air conditioned). |
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The family of a prisoner |
The family of a prisoner being cared for by the Prisoners Relief Society. |
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Dorothy M. Brown |
Dorothy M. Brown, Secretary Treasurer, Prisoners Relief Society, The youthful financial executive, taken at the front entrance of the West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia, November 1931. |
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The Author, Dr. Dudding |
The Author, Dr. Dudding, as he looks dressed in prison garb. |
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Chesapeake & Ohio train No. 2 |
Chesapeake & Ohio train No. 2 (now air conditioned George Washington Limited on main line between Huntington and Washington D.C., on which the Federal Institution for Women, at Alderson, West Virginia, is located. |
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View from the Hawks Nest |
View from the Hawks Nest, West Virginia, of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway jn the New River canyon. |
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Prison Band and Battalion of Trusties |
Prison Band and Battalion of Trusties in the Maryland Penitentiary, thoroghly disciplined under Warden Leonard. |
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Group of women inspecting the site |
Group of women inspecting the site where the Alderson Institution now stands, including Judge Mary O'Toole and Miss Dorothy M. Brown, October 21, 1923. |
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John W. Loontz & Earl Ellicott Dudding |
Left: Mr. John W. Loontz, one of the early Vice Presidents of the Society.
Right: The Author, Earl Ellicott Dudding, as he appeared about the time the Society was removed to Washington D.C. |
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