Wisconsin death trip book

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More than half a century later, lesy, a university of wisconsinmadison graduate student, culled the van schaick archives and banner files for wisconsin death trip. Wisconsin death trip is a 1973 nonfiction book by michael lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by jackson county, wisconsin, photographer charles van schaick mostly taken in the city of black river falls and local news reports from the same period. Find books like wisconsin death trip from the worlds largest community of readers. First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a. First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turnofthecentury wisconsin town has become a. Lesy documents the unsettling record of one small corner of rural america, turning up accounts of barn burnings, attacks by gangs of armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, death by diphtheria and. Wisconsin death trip is, essentially, a photo book, which means its not exactly a historical account of the late 19th century goings on of black river falls.