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Horrible and awful developments from the confession of William Morrison, the Rocky Mountain trapper : giving a true and faithful account of his murders and depredations on the plains, and his escape from the Indians, after killing the son of their chief, which is a true history of his life up to the time of his execution at Springfield, Illinois, for murder.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morrison, William.
- Murderers.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : E.E. Barclay, 1853.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "To which is attached, the narrative of his wife, showing his barbarous cruelty to her, by causing her two starving children to eat human flesh, and eventually compelling her to commit a most cruel and inhuman murder, to save her child from the knife of the blood-thirsty father."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937013179
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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