![]() ![]() Kelley was well known to have taken creative license with details and plot elements where the truth about certain aspects or events were not known. Therein lies the beauty of imaginative invention. Kelley’s story is not historically accurate, but from the creative writers viewpoint, all stories and characters are “TRUE” whether they are based on authentic, contemporary or historical events and people or not. Kelley was a very successful pulp fiction writer and his sensationalized account of the Donnelly tragedy became the most popular, and is still the most popular account ever written on the subject of the Donnelly story. ![]() ![]() It has been reprinted more than 30 times to date since it’s release in 1954. Kelley was the first book ever published about the Donnelly massacre and the most famous. I would like to comment on Nate Hendley’s non-fiction, true crime/biography titled ‘The Black Donnellys’, but in order to do so effectively, I must first introduce ‘The Black Donnellys’ by Thomas P. ![]()
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