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Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray

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Within the fall of 1915, Alice Gray traded her life in Chicago for a solitary journey Within the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan. Living in a fisherman’s shack, she measured herself against nature relatively than society’s rigid conventions. Her audacity so bewitched reporters and a curious public that she turned into a legend in her own time–she turned into “Diana of the Dunes.” Nearly a century later, the tale continues to be a well-liked folktale, but questions remain. Who used to be Alice Gray? Why did this Phi Beta Kappa scholar leave Chicago? What happened to her soul mate, Paul Wilson? On this first-ever book about Diana of the Dunes, the mystery of Alice Gray is revealed by individuals who knew her and through new research. Excerpts from her dunes diary are published here for the first time since 1918. In these pages, rediscover the legend of Diana of the Dunes…and learn the reality.

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