There has been a lot of discussion about crime during the just-completed election cycle. The power of crime to shock has been diminished by the prevalence of it in the modern world.
So think how shocking it was in 1895 when a young man in Brownsville, Oregon shot and killed his parents and a neighbor. That is the story Peter Boag tells in his book .
We visit with the author in this month's edition of Underground History, produced by Chelsea Rose at the (SOULA).
Listen as we explore the crime and the context: a pioneer family and the adjustment to the closing of the frontier and a changing world.