I thought this needed its own thread beyond a summer reading suggestion with its Iowa State connection and Des Moines angle.
An Iowa State Grad David P. Donovan pens a true crime work about the dangerous seedy world of early Des Moines.
"Wickedest place in the wickedest section of Des Moines” ―Des Moines Register
IIn the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines―with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang―operated a campaign of murder, fraud, corruption, and prostitution from his bar on East Court Avenue. In 1908, the local paper denounced the neighborhood as “given up almost entirely to houses of prostitution. At one end stands a notorious saloon, the scene of many crimes, even murders, and for years a harbor for criminals and a plotting place for the evil minded."
Podcast:
www.mostnotorious.com
Carroll Time Herald featured article:
carrollspaper.com
An Iowa State Grad David P. Donovan pens a true crime work about the dangerous seedy world of early Des Moines.
"Wickedest place in the wickedest section of Des Moines” ―Des Moines Register
IIn the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines―with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang―operated a campaign of murder, fraud, corruption, and prostitution from his bar on East Court Avenue. In 1908, the local paper denounced the neighborhood as “given up almost entirely to houses of prostitution. At one end stands a notorious saloon, the scene of many crimes, even murders, and for years a harbor for criminals and a plotting place for the evil minded."
Podcast:
Iowa’s Notorious Carter Gang w/ David & Rose Donovan – MOST NOTORIOUS!
www.mostnotorious.com
Carroll Time Herald featured article:
Story sheds light on Des Moines dark history
A book scheduled for release in mid-June sheds light anew on the “black sheep” in a pioneer Des Moines family, a great-grandfather of one of the authors, and his major
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