What Happened to Bloody Island? by John Davis
by Jenny Kile · June 25, 2018
Article Written by John Davis
1853 Map of Bloody Island
On a brisk morning, with wind wafting off the Mississippi river across from St. Louis, Missouri, the men faced each other with pistols, at barely more than arm’s length. They’d come to shoot at one another because of an ‘offense against honor’.
The place, or ‘field of honor’, was Bloody Island.
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