ENGLISH

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune

By Dianna Higgs Stampfler

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2022
ISBN
9781439674536, 2021950505, 9781467149952
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3558025 bytes)
Series
Murder & Mayhem
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-10-02 06:54:48
ARC024010ArchitectureNonfictionTRA006010TransportationTRU002000True Crime

Description

Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an uncommon occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes, while not unheard of, was more unusual. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908—their decomposed remains were found weeks later. A newly hired (and some say depressed) keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Higgs Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.

Similar books