Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. Together they brought the Civil War and all of its terrible suffering into Northern living rooms. Newspapers sold out when t
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes. In 1874, the Saxtown
Now in paperback, the story of one of our nation’s most infamous and horrific crimes: The Saxtown Massacre. The 1874 murder of a family of five near St. Louis grabbed national headlines like no murder
