Dispatches from the Drownings : Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Part One. 1875-1899 -- A Touching Scene - June 11, 1875 -- Exploits of a Pig - August 31, 1875 -- Sad Accident Claims the Lives of Four - April 29, 1876 -- Another Sad Case of Drowning - July 14, 1879 -- Boy Drowned in Half Moon Lake - June 3, 1880 -- Body, Doubloons Discovered Along the Banks of the Chippewa River - March 7, 1884 -- After Four Months - April 2, 1885 -- Sad Case of Drowning - July 11, 1885 -- Suicides - November 26, 1887 -- Claimed by the Chippewa - July 30, 1888 -- A Live Ghost - June 29, 1891 -- Where Is He? - May 8, 1892 -- Like Murder! - May 29, 1892 -- Like Murder!-The Watchman's Story - May 29, 1892 -- Newlyweds Waterlogged in River - June 16, 1893 -- Narrow Escape - May 20, 1894 -- Boy Drowned - May 20, 1894 -- His Body Found - February 3, 1895 -- Met Death By Drowning - May 11, 1895 -- Little Boy Drowned - May 11, 1895 -- Was It Attempted Suicide - June 6, 1895 -- Suicide at Appleton - April 18, 1896 -- Body Found - May 16, 1896 -- Rescued from a Watery Grave - June 14, 1896 -- Unidentified Sea Creature Washes Ashore in the Eau Claire River - September 10, 1896 -- New Mother Sacrifices Child to the River - December 13, 1896 -- Speculators Meet Fate in the Eau Claire River - May 7, 1897 -- Family Loses Two to River - September 13, 1897 -- A Sad Affair - June 18, 1898 -- Attempted Suicide - April 1, 1899 -- Boat Regatta Claims Life - July 10, 1899 -- Changed His Mind - July 22, 1899 -- Part Two. 1900-1906 -- The Camel Can't Swim - June 19, 1900 -- Six Rivermen Drown - September 17, 1900 -- Bachelor Party Takes Chilly Turn - October 11, 1900 -- Two More Slip Beneath the Ice, Drown - February 1, 1901 -- Miraculous Rescue on the Chippewa - June 29, 1901 -- Two Boys Drown While Bathing - July 31, 1901.

An Old Lumberman Dies - August 10, 1901 -- Wolf Hunt Turns Deadly in River - January 16, 1902 -- Local Boy Becomes Disoriented in Cave, Drowns - May 19, 1902 -- Young Girl Is Drowned - July 17, 1902 -- River Claims an Old Pilot - April 23, 1903 -- Olssen's Buoyant Brick Sinks, Kills Inventor - May 19, 1903 -- Heroic Rescue - June 24, 1904 -- Wilson's Body Is Found - July 7, 1904 -- Frank Wilson Re-Buried - July 9, 1904 -- Narrow Escape from Drowning - June 1, 1905 -- Chippewa River Gives Up Dead - June 6, 1905 -- Was Drowned at Chippewa - June 6, 1905 -- Aftermath of Central Wreck - June 9, 1905 -- Died While Bathing - July 4, 1905 -- Eleven Men Were Drowned - July 11, 1905 -- Heroic Effort to Make Rescue - July 11, 1905 -- A Corpse Is Found - July 11, 1905 -- Recovery of Bodies - July 11, 1905 -- Blomquist Boy May Be Drowned - August 24, 1905 -- His Absence a Mystery - August 25, 1905 -- No Traces Yet of Missing Boy - August 25, 1905 -- Drowning Was an Accident - August 29, 1905 -- The Last of the Logging Casualties? - September 25, 1905 -- Drowned at Glidden - November 25, 1905 -- Sailing Party Suffers Tragic Losses in Half Moon Lake - June 11, 1906 -- Boy Drowns at Rice Lake - June 29, 1906 -- Woman Lost Two Days - August 31, 1906 -- Halloween Scare Nearly Takes Lives of Three - November 1, 1906 -- Part Three. 1907-1922 -- Moose Found Rack Up in River - March 17, 1907 -- Young Van Housen Boy Lost to River - April 21, 1907 -- Drowned in Chippewa River - August 17, 1907 -- Body of Young Suicide Found - October 4, 1907 -- Were Enjoying a Cool Bath - August 13, 1908 -- Body of Sweet Found Yesterday - June 27, 1909 -- Home Inmate Is Drowned in River - July 6, 1909 -- Leopold Kortsch Drowns in Dells Pond Yesterday - August 22, 1909 -- Lumber Baron Perishes in River - August 28, 1909 -- Chippewa Girl Drowns in Lake - July 30, 1910.

Male Curiosity Catches Slayer - August 3, 1910 -- Jumps from Railway Bridge into Icy Waters - February 7, 1911 -- Meets Death While Swimming - June 20, 1911 -- Nels Isaacson Drowns in River - October 27, 1912 -- Boy Ghost Found Drowned in River - November 1, 1912 -- Near Drowning in Mill Pond - February 27, 1913 -- Three Schoolboys Drown - June 24, 1913 -- Best Swimmer Stays Down - August 7, 1913 -- Burglar Receives Sentencingin the Unforgiving River - November 18, 1913 -- State Happenings - June 17, 1914 -- Two Drown in the Eau Claire River Sunday - July 14, 1914 -- Chippewa River Claims Youth - August 28, 1915 -- Drowning Death Spurred by Heart Attack - May 19, 1916 -- Rivals Drown in River - June 7, 1916 -- Rescued from a Near Icy Death - December 5, 1916 -- Missing Meridean Man Is Found in Chippewa River - December 9, 1916 -- Body of George Bendickson Is Found in River - August 12, 1917 -- Boy Drowns in Chippewa River in Spite of Brave Effort to Rescue -- Ice Broke Where Lad Was Playing - March 1, 1918 -- Tibbett's Body Recovered - May 11, 1918 -- Swimming Showman Proves No Match for River - August 11, 1919 -- Drowning of Dog Rouses Pity Here - January 8, 1920 -- Still Search River for Body of Little Girl - May 4, 1922 -- Boy Escapes Death in River - May 11, 1922 -- Father and Son Drown in River at New London - October 25, 1922 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- About the Author and the Photographer -- Back Cover.

In homage to Michael Lesy's cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts, lies, and a wide range of blurring in between.

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