Keven McQueen
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar burials. In Weird Wild West, author Keven McQueen brings together a fabulous collection of tales of the darker and stranger side of Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions -- including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family -- as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he...