Carla Joinson

Vanished in Hiawatha

The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians

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Produktbeschreibung

Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of A Diamond in the Dust and Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker, a selection of the 2008 Amelia Bloomer Project from the American Library Association.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780803280984
• ISBN-10: 080328098X
• Artikelnr.: 44140981

Autorenporträt

Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of A Diamond in the Dust and Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go?
2. Life in an Asylum
3. The Bad Start Begins
4. Helpless
5. A Superintendent in Trouble
6. Which Way to Canton?
7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins
8. Reforms and Canton Asylum
9. Let the Investigations Begin
10. Life among the Indians
11. Another Sort of Prison
12. The World Outside
13. Hummer Can’t Keep Up
14. Ripples in the Waters
15. The Winds of Change
16. The Gale Blows
Epilogue
Afterthoughts
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Patients Treated at Canton Asylum
Appendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery
Appendix C: Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeths
Notes
Bibliography
Index