Killing of Asheville black man was part of hysteria
by Rob Neufeld
The 1906 manhunt for and grisly killing of African American gunman Will Harris in Asheville—you can see the nicks his stray bullets had made on the Vance Monument, tour guides say—is famous, thanks in part to Thomas Wolfe’s short story, “The Child by Tiger.”
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