The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy

Book excerpt: On a late summer night in 1920, near Withee, Wisconsin, Caroline Krueger penned a letter from home to her eldest son Frank, in prison. On September 14, 1918, near the end of World War I, a Wisconsin farm family found their lives torn apart for refusing to fight in a war overseas. Their home was surrounded and shot up that day by lawmen and neighbors in what Frank Krueger later dubbed "a patriotic frenzy." With one man dead and several injured, two of the four Krueger brothers suffered the consequences with life imprisonment while their youngest brother disappeared. The Krueger story made press across the U.S. 16 Years of Letters from Prison, Nearly a hundred years later, with excerpts from a collection of several hundred letters exchanged by the Krueger family and never before published, The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy allows Caroline and her sons to tell their story for the first time. Book jacket.