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Half the Terrible Things

Paul Legler

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Description:A true crime story involving the murder of a young man in Dixie County, Florida in 1922. Half the Terrible Things is an intimate and sometimes violent novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp Whipping Boss. His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country.Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11. The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Half the Terrible Things. To get started finding Half the Terrible Things, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 288

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: NDSU Press

Release: 2020

ISBN: 194616318X

Description: A true crime story involving the murder of a young man in Dixie County, Florida in 1922. Half the Terrible Things is an intimate and sometimes violent novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp Whipping Boss. His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country.Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11. The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Half the Terrible Things. To get started finding Half the Terrible Things, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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