Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes
eBook - ePub

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes

A History of Murder and Misfortune

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eBook - ePub

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes

A History of Murder and Misfortune

About this book

The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes.


Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains 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 Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.

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Yes, you can access Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes by Dianna Higgs Stampfler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781439674536
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I. Lake Ontario
  9. Part II. Lake Erie
  10. Part III. Lake Huron
  11. Part IV. Lake Michigan
  12. Part V. Lake Superior
  13. Part VI. Compilation
  14. Author’s Note
  15. Resources
  16. About the Author