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Excerpts, Maps and such
This page contains excerpts and such from Nameless Indignities – some that made it into the book and some that didn’t!
Editing during the publishing process is always a necessary step, but a painful one for most writers. I think readers will also enjoy seeing some of the material that didn't make the final cut during editing.
A decision was made by the publisher to omit the bibliography for Nameless Indignities, so I am including it on this page for those interested in seeing what works I consulted (many of these sources were not quoted in the text; hence, they do not appear in the book’s endnotes.) I am also re-sharing the epigraph here because I love its timeless message and how on-point it was for this particular book. (Check back in the future to see additional excerpts and additions to this page).
The files below are all PDFs, with a zoom feature, which is useful when viewing the maps. The Life of a Suckerboy is the short autobiography of Lester Sabine, a principal character in Nameless Indignities. He was my great-grandfather, as well as the brother-in-law of the victim Emma Bond. His story provides a wonderful historical perspective on life in central IL from the 1850s to the 1870s. However, it also contains a clue, relevant to Nameless Indignities, and one that provides an additional link in the chain of circumstantial evidence on which I based my conclusions. I noticed this detail AFTER my book was published. Can you find it? (Suggest reading it after you've read Nameless Indignities.)
The files below are all PDFs, with a zoom feature, which is useful when viewing the maps. The Life of a Suckerboy is the short autobiography of Lester Sabine, a principal character in Nameless Indignities. He was my great-grandfather, as well as the brother-in-law of the victim Emma Bond. His story provides a wonderful historical perspective on life in central IL from the 1850s to the 1870s. However, it also contains a clue, relevant to Nameless Indignities, and one that provides an additional link in the chain of circumstantial evidence on which I based my conclusions. I noticed this detail AFTER my book was published. Can you find it? (Suggest reading it after you've read Nameless Indignities.)
Excerpts:
Maps
Autobiography of Lester F. Sabine (1856-1945)