It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Death of a Colporteur by John Thiel
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On September 18, 1885, the body of a seventeen-year-old boy was found in a hastily dug grave beneath a culvert on a country road south of Dixon, Illinois. It was the remains of one Frank Charles Thiel, a young colporteur of Bible salesman, who hailed from the City of Elgin, seventy-five miles east of Dixon. The young book agent had been brutally murdered. The following narrative is a history of the events surrounding the murder of Frank Thiel that eventually grew into a major news story and subsequent murder trial in Lee County, Illinois during the autumn and winter of 1885-86. Over 130 years after the murder the road where the body was discovered is still named "Bloody Gulch Road."
Death of a Colporteur by John Thiel is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.
This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Death of a Colporteur aloud.
Death of a Colporteur is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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