
Published online:
19 January 2023
Published in print:
14 September 2021
Online ISBN:
9781469665672
Print ISBN:
9781469664712
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Chapter
2 Outlaw of the Boone Trail: Carjacking and the Wood Crime Family, 1913–1917
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19–34
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Published:September 2021
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McKenzie, Trevor (ed.), 'Outlaw of the Boone Trail: Carjacking and the Wood Crime Family, 1913–1917', Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer behind the Appalachian Ballads (Chapel Hill, NC , 2021; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 19 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469664712.003.0003, accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter delves into Wood’s early adulthood as a railroad bandit and car thief. Wood’s relationship with his family his explored, especially his close connection with his younger brother and partner in crime, Robert. The chapter covers Wood’s incarcerations at the Tennessee State Penitentiary and the chain gang of the Virginia State Penitentiary as well as his escapes from those institutions. A section of the chapter charts the manhunts which searched for Wood and his accomplices during these escapes. Wood’s first public pleas for clemency, in the form of letters to North Carolina newspapers, are also explored in this chapter.
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