salākh'khānah-yi kūchak-i shahr: Persian 1401

It is true that the United States of America does not shy away from killing even today, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it killed people in a much more organized and precise manner; 100 million Native Americans were killed in line with the policies of land occupation and the creation of the largest, most powerful, richest and, of course, the freest (!) country in history! Different American governments scattered white immigrants on American soil with different incentive policies; Policies such as acquisition on the condition of residence, which allowed a family to own tens of hectares of free land by immigrating and settling in the western regions of America; The lands that had fallen into the hands of the government by killing the indigenous people of the region! In the meantime, a stratum was formed in American society, which are known as pioneers, that is, those who migrated to the American West in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and stayed! The humor and horror of the story are hidden in the meaning of the word pioneer and the people who migrated! The pioneers who entered usurped lands and from the moment they arrived, slavery and unbridled violence were an inseparable part of their daily lives. The book "Celebrities of Death: The Small Slaughterhouse of the City" chronicles the crimes of one of these immigrant families; The Bandar family is known as the "pioneer serial killers". In this book, like his other works, Harold Schecter went to another criminal story from American history and presented a story about a family whose men and women killed people hand in hand both for money and for their own pleasure! The story goes back to the 1870s and the presence of a strange family in Labette County - meaning "beast" - in the state of Kansas, whose cruelty and killings were so extreme that they became known as "blood-eating harbors". The small slaughterhouse of the city narrates the story of this family with the details of the appearance and behavior of each of its members, in the context of the time and place of the crimes, and shows that the bloodthirsty porters were just one of the criminals of their time who, due to luck or bad luck, were more famous than others. They were!