Outrage in Ohio: A Rural Murder, Lynching, and Mystery - Brossura

Kimmel, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0253034221 ISBN 13: 9780253034229

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2018

Riassunto

On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church. She never arrived. The horrific death of this young girl inspired an illegal interstate pursuit-and-arrest, courtroom dramatics, conflicting confessions, and the daylight lynching of a traveling tin peddler and an intellectually disabled teenager. Who killed Mary Secaur? Were the accused actually guilty? What drove the citizens of Mercer County to lynch the suspects?

David Kimmel seeks answers to these provoking questions and deftly recounts what actually happened in the fateful summer of 1872, imagining the inner workings of the small rural community, reconstructing the personal relationships of those involved, and restoring humanity to this gripping story. Using a unique blend of historical research and contemporary accounts, Outrage in Ohio explores how a terrible crime ripped an Ohio farming community apart and asks us to question what really happened to Mary Secaur.

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Informazioni sull'autore

David Kimmel is a descendant of one of the suspects in the Secaur murder. He is an award-winning professor of English at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, where he investigates the boundary between historical writing and historical fiction. Outrage in Ohio is his debut work.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253034221
• ISBN 13: 9780253034229
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 230
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Germania