Rapid City, South Dakota – November 22, 1900. The usually stoic face of Rapid City’s social elite cracked a smile as Mrs. Josephine Gantz returned home after a two-year odyssey to the Klondike and Cape Nome. But beneath the surface of this welcome-home celebration, whispers of scandal simmered. Sources close to the Gantz family revealed a tangled web of vices and temptations that threatened to upend the respectable lives of Rapid City’s upper crust.
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Key Facts
- State: South Dakota
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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