Summary of Harold Schechter's Deviant

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#1 Wisconsin is a garden state, and the scenery along the highway from Madison to the north is picturesque. However, as you travel further north, the landscape changes, and you begin to feel as if you have entered a different, and far less hospitable, world.

#2 The town of Plainfield, Illinois, was named after Elijah Waterman, one of its founding fathers. It was a small, neighborly place where old-fashioned values prevailed.

#3 The town of Plainfield experienced a lot of tragedy and disaster, but it was also the site of a particularly vicious killing that occurred in 1853. A local squatter known as Firman was on a trip to Milwaukee, where he met a New Yorker named Cartwright, who was looking to migrate with his family to the Midwest. The territory around Plainfield desperately needed more settlers, so Cartwright accepted the offer of forty acres of land.

#4 The lynch mob eventually dragged Cartwright’s body back to his house and threw it inside. His wife and children were horrified.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822525580

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Wisconsin is a garden state, and the scenery along the highway from Madison to the north is picturesque. However, as you travel further north, the landscape changes, and you begin to feel as if you have entered a different, and far less hospitable, world.

#2

The town of Plainfield, Illinois, was named after Elijah Waterman, one of its founding fathers. It was a small, neighborly place where old-fashioned values prevailed.

#3

The town of Plainfield experienced a lot of tragedy and disaster, but it was also the site of a particularly vicious killing that occurred in 1853. A local squatter known as Firman was on a trip to Milwaukee, where he met a New Yorker named Cartwright, who was looking to migrate with his family to the Midwest. The territory around Plainfield desperately needed more settlers, so Cartwright accepted the offer of forty acres of land.

#4

The lynch mob eventually dragged Cartwright’s body back to his house and threw it inside. His wife and children were horrified.

#5

The story of Firman and Cartwright and the dread culmination of their feud remained, for many years, the most sensational episode in the history of Plainfield. Many of the townspeople felt that it was unfairly associated with such an infamous event.

#6

George Gein’s family was struck by tragedy when he was three years old. His mother, father, and older sister drowned in a flash flood, and he was left orphaned. He spent several years laboring for a blacksmith.

#7

Augusta was a domineering woman who never doubted the correctness of her beliefs or