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The murder was analyzed and explored in two non-fiction books, both published in 1986: Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906, written by Joseph W. Brownell and Patricia A. Wawrzaszek, and Murder in the Adirondacks: An American Tragedy Revisited, by Craig Brandon (which was updated in 2017). [2]
The Moose River Plains Wild Forest is a 64,322-acre (100.5 sq mi; 260.3 km 2) tract in the Adirondack Park in Hamilton and Herkimer counties in the state of New York in the United States of America; it is designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. [1]
Big Moose Lake, at the head of the Moose River, is a large lake about five miles (8 km) north of Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The lake is within both Herkimer and Hamilton counties, [1] and covers portions of the towns of Webb and Long Lake. Located southwest of the lake is the hamlet of Big Moose. [2]
Dreiser based the book on a notorious criminal case. On July 11, 1906, resort owners found an overturned boat and the body of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. Chester Gillette was put on trial, and convicted of killing Brown, though he claimed that her death was a suicide.
Moose Mountain is a mountain located in Adirondack Mountains of New York located in the Town of Indian Lake southwest of Indian Lake.
Anne LaBastille (November 20, 1933 – July 1, 2011) [3] was an American author, ecologist, and photographer. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including Woodswoman, Beyond Black Bear Lake, and Women of the Wilderness.
Jul. 16—On the hottest day of the year so far, Manito Park's water features provided reprieve to park visitors of multiple species escaping Sunday's 97-degree heat. In the pond at Manito Park, a ...
Finally, Gillette made arrangements for a trip to the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. The pair stayed for a night in Utica, New York, and then continued to Tupper Lake in Franklin County, spending the night. Rain the next day ruined their plans for an outing on a nearby lake, so they returned south to Big Moose Lake in Herkimer County ...