Grace Brown, who was killed at Big Moose Lake, inspired Roberta Alden, who drowns in his "An American Tragedy"
[DOC] [TLE] Murder of Grace Brown - Wikipedia [PAR] Grace Mae Brown (March 20, 1886  July 11, 1906) was an American skirt 
factory worker whose murder caused a nationwide sensation, and whose life 
inspired the fictional character Roberta Alden in the Theodore Dreiser novel, An 
American Tragedy, as well ... Gillette and Brown went by train and coach to Big 
Moose in Herkimer County... [DOC] [TLE] An American Tragedy - Wikipedia [PAR] An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser.