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Dromgoole, twice-murdered: unraveling a Southern legend of duels, disappearance, Seminole Wars, secret societies,mystery, castles, & Flagler's millions
Malone, E. T. · 2017 · Literary Lantern Press
E. T. Malone's biography of Peter Pelham Dromgoole, born 1815, the University of North Carolina student whose disappearance from Chapel Hill in 1833 grew into the legend behind the Order of Gimghoul. The long subtitle promises duels, the Seminole Wars, secret societies, castles and Flagler's millions along the way. Published by Literary Lantern Press in Warrenton in 2017, 276 pages with illustrations and portraits, some in color.
Gimghoul : past and present
1978 · Order of Gimghoul
A short pamphlet on the history of the Order of Gimghoul, the Chapel Hill student society, and its castle, issued by the order in 1978. It includes the legend attached to Peter Pelham Dromgoole, a student born in 1815. Eight unnumbered pages with illustrations.
Dromgoole's revenge
Malone, E. T., Jr. · 2010 · Literary Lantern Press
A sixteen page short story by E. T. Malone, Jr., built on the campus legend of Peter Dromgoole, the University of North Carolina student who vanished in the 1830s, and on the Order of Gimghoul, the Chapel Hill secret society bound up with that legend. Literary Lantern Press of Warrenton published it in 2010.
Peter Dromgoole : in which much light is thrown on an interesting tradition
Cotten, Bruce, 1873-1954 · 1924
Bruce Cotten's 1924 pamphlet on Peter Pelham Dromgoole, the student at the center of a Chapel Hill legend, with attention also to Edward Dromgoole and the wider family. It concerns legends of Chapel Hill and the Dromgoole name, so it serves local folklore and family history alike.
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