William Sheppard had never ventured beyond his Chicago neighborhood until, at thirteen, he is sent away to the Swope Ranch Boys Reformatory, thousands of miles from home, for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. ...See moreWilliam Sheppard had never ventured beyond his Chicago neighborhood until, at thirteen, he is sent away to the Swope Ranch Boys Reformatory, thousands of miles from home, for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. Buried deep in the Colorado mountains, Swope is shrouded in legend, and defined by one prevailing rumor: that boys who go in, never come out the same. Written by
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