The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption (Iowa and the Midwest Experience)
ISBN-13:
9781609388393
ISBN-10:
1609388399
Author:
Thomas Wolf, Patricia L. Bryan
Publication date:
2022
Publisher:
University Of Iowa Press
Format:
Paperback
228 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781609388393
ISBN-10:
1609388399
Author:
Thomas Wolf, Patricia L. Bryan
Publication date:
2022
Publisher:
University Of Iowa Press
Format:
Paperback
228 pages
Summary
The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption (Iowa and the Midwest Experience) (ISBN-13: 9781609388393 and ISBN-10: 1609388399), written by authors
Thomas Wolf, Patricia L. Bryan, was published by University Of Iowa Press in 2022.
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Description
On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge of the accused perpetrator—a small, quiet boy weighing just 75 pounds.
Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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