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- catalog abstract ""Few prisons can claim a past as colorful as the old Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater. In its sixty-five year history, from planning to closing, the prison witnessed the capture and imprisonment of the Younger gang in 1876; the prison fire of 1884; the daring escape of Frank P. Landers and Oscar J. Carlon in 1887; the twine shop insurrection of 1899; and the manhunt for escaped convicts Peter Juhl and Jerry McCarty in 1911. Its history is packed with such peculiar characters as "Bull Beef" Webber, the warden who allowed murderers to embark on hunting trips and an incarcerated prostitute to work out of the prison hospital; Charles Price, a convicted murderer who became famous for his prison greenhouse; and John Carter, the convicted thief turned poet who won his freedom with his verse." "The less remembered stories are here too: George L. Bartlett, who details the terrifying first days of incarceration; Azilda Beaudry, who writes achingly of her separation from her children as they die one by one of disease; Walter Turner, an African American inmate who renders advice on surviving solitary confinement; and Samuel A. Phillips, who speaks frankly about sex in the prison. Their stories give voice to the forgotten history of the prison."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12592407.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Few prisons can claim a past as colorful as the old Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater. In its sixty-five year history, from planning to closing, the prison witnessed the capture and imprisonment of the Younger gang in 1876; the prison fire of 1884; the daring escape of Frank P. Landers and Oscar J. Carlon in 1887; the twine shop insurrection of 1899; and the manhunt for escaped convicts Peter Juhl and Jerry McCarty in 1911. Its history is packed with such peculiar characters as "Bull Beef" Webber, the warden who allowed murderers to embark on hunting trips and an incarcerated prostitute to work out of the prison hospital; Charles Price, a convicted murderer who became famous for his prison greenhouse; and John Carter, the convicted thief turned poet who won his freedom with his verse." "The less remembered stories are here too: George L. Bartlett, who details the terrifying first days of incarceration; Azilda Beaudry, who writes achingly of her separation from her children as they die one by one of disease; Walter Turner, an African American inmate who renders advice on surviving solitary confinement; and Samuel A. Phillips, who speaks frankly about sex in the prison. Their stories give voice to the forgotten history of the prison."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-145) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 146 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hard time.".
- catalog identifier "0873514335 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0873514343 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hard time.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press,".
- catalog relation "Hard time.".
- catalog subject "365/.9776/59 21".
- catalog subject "HV9475.M62 M553 2002".
- catalog subject "Minnesota State Prison (Stillwater, Minn.) History Sources.".
- catalog title "Hard time : voices from a state prison, 1849-1914 / edited by Ted Genoways ; foreword by Ted Conover ; introduction by James Taylor Dunn.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".