Wisconsin Death Trip
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826321933 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.. First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic
S. Hagen said Five Stars. for the more morbid among us. Very Interesting My family on my mother's side came from this area so I was very intersted in learning a little about the area and the time. The photos show an excellent portrayal of what times must have been like back then. Although some of the newspaper clippings were from other counties throughout the state, the book did mention that there were as many deaths, suicides, etc. in the ONE county as there were in the entire state. That is what made this so interesting, why . "Good deal" according to Lucas S. Johnson. Wife loved it.As advertised
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 smallpox (the Wisconsin townsfolk had, some years, to attend several funerals a week), alcoholism, madness, business and bank failures, and even a case or two of witchcraft. Hyperbole notwithstanding, this is a remarkable study, one that Lesy himself rightly calls an experiment in both history and alchemy. First published in 1973, Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, now reissued in a handsome paperbound edition, became a key text of the counterculture, a book to shelve alongside Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Custer Died for Your Sins--and it sometimes reads like a hip product of its time. --Gregory McNamee. After reading Lesy's texts and viewing the sometimes unsettling images he's turned up, you would be forgi