by Paul Martin
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“Wisconsin Killer Gein Ruled Guilty, Insane; Recommitted.” Chicago Tribune, November 15, 1968: 12.
CHAPTER 10. SALEM’S RABID WITCH-HUNTER—WILLIAM STOUGHTON
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“Salem Witch Trials.” University of Virginia, 2002. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html (accessed February 16, 2012).
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Woodward, W. Elliot, ed. Records of Salem Witchcraft, Copied from the Original Documents. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969 (reprint of 1864–65 editions).
CHAPTER 13. LINCOLN’S MISSING BODYGUARD—JOHN PARKER
“Ford’s Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died.” National Park Service, 1987.
Good, Timothy Sean. We Saw Lincoln Shot. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Pace, Gina. “What If Lincoln Lived?” CBS News, May 18, 2007. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/18/national/main2825645.shtml (accessed July 6, 2009).
CHAPTER 14. SQUIRREL TOOTH ALICE—LIBBY THOMPSON
Agnew, Jeremy. Brides of the Multitude: Prostitution in the Old West. Lake City, CO: Western Reflections Publishing, 2008.
Butler, Anne M. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–90. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
“The Rail Heads of the Great Texas Cattle Trails.” KansasCattleTowns.org. http://www.kansascattletowns.org/index.html (accessed August 7, 2011).
CHAPTER 16. THE VERY MELLOW YELLOW KID—JOSEPH WEIL
Maurer, David W. The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. New York: Anchor Books, 1999. Reprint of 1940 edition.
Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present. New York: M. Evans and Co., 1995.
———. Hustlers and Con Men: An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games. New York: M. Evans and Co., 1976.
“Yellow Kid, 82, Hospitalized; Charity Case.” Chicago Tribune, June 29, 1957: 21.
“‘Yellow Kid,’ Still Dapper, Hale, Nears 86.” Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1961: B2.
CHAPTER 17. YOU BET YOUR LIFE—ALVIN THOMAS
Bradshaw, Jon. Fast Company. New York: Vintage Books, 1987.
Kaplan, Michael. “All Bets Are On.” Cigar Aficionado, August 1, 2002. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/All-Bets-Are-On_7140 (accessed February 25, 2012).
Minnesota Fats, with Tom Fox. The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1966.
“Rothstein Evidence Ample, Says Banton.” New York Times, December 2, 1928: 1.
“‘Titanic’ Thompson Recovering Rapidly.” New York Times, November 15, 1929: 23.
CHAPTER 19. THE SILKEN VOICE OF TREACHERY—MILDRED GILLARS
“‘Axis Sally’ Is Found Guilty; Sentence on Treason Delayed.” New York Times, March 11, 1949: 1.
“Axis Sally Is Freed From Federal Prison on Parole.” New York Times, July 11, 1961: 14.
“‘Axis Sally’ Jurors Hear Last Witness.” New York Times, March 5, 1949: 4.
Edwards, John Carver. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
CHAPTER 21. THE WITCH OF WALL STREET—HETTY GREEN
“Hetty Green’s Son and Heir Trained by Her.” New York Times, July 9, 1916: SM5.
Jepson, Jill. Women’s Concerns: Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Lewis, Arthur H. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
“Seventy Years Rest Lightly on Mrs. Hetty Green.” New York Times, November 5, 1905.
CHAPTER 22. KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS—DAVID O’KEEFE
Hezel, Francis X. Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
Hezel, Francis X. The First Taint of Civilization: A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-colonial Days, 1521–1885. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.
CHAPTER 23. MASTER SALESMAN OF A DUBIOUS LEGEND— HERBERT BRIDGMAN
Babst, Earl D. “In Memory of Herbert L. Bridgman.” Diamond of Psi Upsilon, November 24, 1924: 3–10.
“Baffin Bay & Davis Strait.” PEW Environment Group, 2010. http://www.oceansnorth.org/baffin-bay-davis-strait (accessed September 16, 2010).
Brendle, Anna. “Profile: African-American North Pole Explorer Matthew Henson.” National Geographic News, January 15, 2003. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_henson.html (accessed August 31, 2010).
“Peary Discovers the North Pole after Eight Trials in 23 Years.” New York Times, September 7, 1909: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0406.html (accessed September 17, 2010).
Chapter 24. The Consummate Gold Digger—Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins. Transatlantic Wife. New York: Macaulay Co., 1933.
“Peggy Hopkins Joyce.” Internet Broadway Database, 2011. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=47282 (accessed November 22, 2011).
“Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893–1957).” Internet Movie Database, 2011. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431591 (accessed November 22, 2011).
“Peggy Hopkins Joyce Re-Wed.” New York Times, May 31, 1956: 13.
“Sues Peggy Hopkins for His Freedom.” New York Times, April 12, 1921: 8.
CHAPTER 25. THE MAD, SAD POET OF GREENWICH VILLAGE— MAXWELL BODENHEIM
“Anti-Red Writers Barred from WPA, Witness Declares.” New York Times, September 16, 1938: 1.
Bodenheim, Maxwell. Replenishing Jessica. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Bodenheim, Maxwell. Selected Poems of Maxwell Bodenheim, 1914–1944. New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946.
“Bodenheim Service Will Be Held Today.” New York Times, February 10, 1954: 26.
Day, Dorothy. Loaves and Fishes. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
“Defends Writings of WPA Authors.” New York Times, July 22, 1937: 9.
“Mental Tests Set for Poet’s Slayer.” New York Times, February 12, 1954: 33.
Rotella, Carlo. “Chicago Literary Renaissance.” Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2005. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/257.html (accessed April 23, 2010).
Solotaroff, Ted, ed. A Discourse on Hip: Selected Writings of Milton Klonsky. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
CHAPTER 26. THE BIFURCATED CONGRESSMAN—SAMUEL DICKSTEIN
Berlet, Chip, and Matthew N. Lyons. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000.
“Dickstein Assails ‘Isms.’” New York Times, May 24, 1936: 6.
“Dickstein, Samuel, (1885–1954).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 2010. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000335 (accessed April 28, 2010).
Morrison, David. Heroes, Antiheroes, and the Holocaust: American Jewry and Historical Choices. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 1999.
Ogden, August Raymond. The Dies Committee: A Study of the
Special House Committee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities, 1938–1944. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
CHAPTER 27. THE FRUGAL COUNTERFEITER—EMERICH JUETTNER
Bloom, Murray Teigh. Money of Their Own: The Great Counterfeiters. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957.
Mister 880 [movie]. Twentieth Century Fox, 1950. Rated at tcm.com, http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83700/Mister-880 (accessed August 29, 2011).
“Secret Service History.” United States Secret Service, 2010. http://www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml (accessed September 8, 2011).
CHAPTER 28. IMPERFECT PITCH—DON LAPRE
Duell, Mark. “Top TV Pitchman Don Lapre ‘Commits Suicide’ in Prison Just Two Days Before $52m Fraud Trial.” Mail Online, October 3, 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044687/Don-Lapre-dead-Arizona-TV-pitchman-commits-suicide-cell-52m-fraud-trial.html (accessed December 21, 2011).
“Indicted Donald Lapre Captured in Tempe.” MyFoxPhoenix.com, June 23, 2011.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/indicted-donald-lapre-captured-in-tempe-6-23-2011 (accessed December 21, 2011).
Lapre, Don. Profit Per Minute: How to Get into the 900 Number Business. Phoenix: New Strategies, 1993.
Mr. Pigeon. “Get Rich Quick! Mr. Pigeon Pays $79.95 for the Secrets of Wealth.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 3, 1994: 01D.
Mr. Pigeon. “Secret of Success: Mr. Pigeon Is 11 Steps Closer to Big Bucks.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 1, 1994: 01D.
“Phoenix TV Pitchman to Remain in Custody.” MyFoxPhoenix.com, July 29, 2011.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/apx-AZPitchman-Charged_63768879-07292011 (accessed December 21, 2011).
“Ron Popeil.” Biography, A&E Television Networks, 2012. http://www.biography.com/people/ron-popeil-177863 (accessed January 22, 2012).
“TV Pitchman a No Show at Federal Arraignment.” MyFoxPhoenix.com, June 23, 2011.
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/justice/tv-pitchman-a-no-show-at-federal-arraignment-apx-06232011 (accessed December 21, 2011).
James DeWolf, page 15: Courtesy of US Senate Historical Office.
Samuel Mason, page 23: Oil painting by J. Bernhard Alberts, 1916.
John Chivington, page 29: Used with permission from the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Z-128.
Fong Ching, page 37: Photographic print. Used with permission from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Belle Sorensen Gunness, page 45: Courtesy La Porte County Historical Society Museum.
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, page 53: Photograph by Brown Brothers, ca. early 1900s, used with permission from Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/.
Dean O’Banion, page 61: © Bettmann/CORBIS.
John Brinkley, page 69: Photographic print, 1920, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-107748.
Ed Gein, page 77: Photographic print, 1957, United Press International telephoto, New York World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-128628.
William Stoughton, page 85: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John Cooper to Harvard College, 1810, H37.
Daniel Drew, page 93: Wood engraving from photograph by Mathew B. Brady, 1867, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-138440.
James Lane, page 101: Glass, wet collodian, ca. 1855–1865, Brady-Hand Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01175.
John Parker, page 107: Albumen print, 1865, Civil War Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23872.
Libby Thompson, page 113: Used with permission from Kansas State Historical Society.
Burt Alvord, page 121: Used with permission from Arizona Historical Society, PC 1000, Portraits–Alvord, Burt, # 29897.
Joseph Weil, page 129: Front cover of “Yellow Kid” Weil: The Autobiography of America’s Master Swindler by J. R. “Yellow Kid” Weil and W. T. Brannon, reprinted 2011 by Nabat/AK Press.
Alvin Thomas, page 137: Associated Press.
Charles Davenport, page 143: Courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.
Mildred Gillars, page 153: Associated Press photograph, 1946, New York World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117758.
Maggie and Kate Fox, page 163: Photo by Thomas M. Easterly, 1852. Courtesy of the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis.
Hetty Green, page 171: Photographic print, ca. 1897, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-42657.
David O’Keefe, page 179: Courtesy of Don Evans, O’Keefe’s Waterfront Inn, Yap, Micronesia.
Herbert Bridgman, page 187: Photo by Gessford, from His Last Voyage: Herbert Lawrence Bridgman, 1844–1924, published 1924 by Brooklyn Standard Union.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, page 195: Used with permission from Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Image ID: 100887.
Maxwell Bodenheim, page 203: Photographic print, 1919, New York World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112040.
Samuel Dickstein, page 211: Photo by Harris and Ewing, ca. 1937, Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-22296.
Emerich Juettner, page 219: Photo by Nick Peterson/New York Daily News via Getty Images.
Don Lapre, page 227: Front cover of Small Ads, Big Profits: How You Could Turn $30 into a Fortune by Don Lapre, published 2000 by New Strategies.
Aberdeen, SD, 49
Abilene, KS, 115, 116
abolitionism, 17, 20, 31, 32, 102, 165, 166
advertising, Don Lapre’s use of, 227–33
Aiken, Conrad, 206
Alvord, Albert “Burt,” 121–28
Alvord, Charles E., 123, 125, 127
Alvord, Lola, 124, 126
Alvord, Lucinda, 123, 125
Alvord, Mary, 127
American Civil Liberties Union, 213
American Communist Party, 208, 213, 214, 215–16
American Eugenics Society, 147, 150
American Medical Association, 73, 74
American Mercury (magazine), 207
American Museum of Natural History, 188
American Newspaper Publishers Association, 189
Amherst, MA, 189
Amherst College, 189
Amundsen, Roald, 190
Anderson, George, 49
Anderson, Margaret, 205
Anderson, Sherwood, 206
Anna Sims (schooner), 180
Antarctica, 190, 192
anti-Semitism, 149, 154, 156, 157, 205, 212, 213, 214
Apache Indians, 114
Appomattox Court House, 107
Arapaho Indians, 29–30, 33, 34
Archibald, Everett, Jr., 197
Arctic exploration, 187–93
Argus (newspaper), 102
Arizona
Alvin Thomas in, 139
Burt Alvord in, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127
Don Lapre in, 228, 230, 231, 232
Arizona Historical Society, 127
Arizona Rangers, 126
Arkansas
Alvin Thomas in, 138, 139
John Brinkley in, 71
Arnold, Eddie, 73
arsenic poisoning, 50
arson, 46, 50, 51, 81
Asch Building, 54, 55, 56, 58
Astor, John Jacob, 94
Atlanta federal penitentiary, 130, 134
Autry, Gene, 73
Axis Sally. See Gillars, Mildred “Axis Sally”
Baffin Bay, 187
Baldwin, James, 217
Barnum, P. T., 168
Bates, Norman (fictional character), 82
Battle of Dry
Wood Creek, 103
“beer wars,” 62
Bell, Alexander Graham, 147, 192
Bell, John, 165
Bellows Fall, VT, 175
Belvidere (merchant ship), 180
Bennett Medical College, 71
Berlin, Germany, 155–56, 157
Berry, George, 48
Better Business Bureau, 230
betting scams, 132, 133, 141–42
Beverley Hillbillies, The (TV show), 94
Bibliographies and Indices Project, 208
Big Nose Kate, 117
Bisbee gang, 123
Bishop, Bridget, 86, 89
Black, Ladbroke, 177
Black, Starr & Frost (jewelry store), 196
Black Fonso (race horse), 132
Black Kettle (chief), 29–30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Blanck, Max, 53–60
Blaylock, Mattie, 117
Blaze Ball (artists’ soiree), 207
Blazing Saddles (movie), 122
Bloch, Robert, 82
“Bloodless Third.” See Third Colorado Cavalry
Bloody Market Streeters (gang), 63
Bodenheim, Maxwell “Bogie,” 203–210
Bodenheimer, Caroline, 205
Bodenheimer, Solomon, 205
boo how doy (“highbinders”), 40–41, 42
Booth, John Wilkes, 12, 110, 111
Bo Sin Seer Tong, 41
Bostwick, Charles, 57
Bradford, William, 19
Brazos River, 114
Brennan, Walter, 24
Bridgman, Helen Bartlett, 191, 192
Bridgman, Herbert, 187–93
Brinkley, John, 69–75
Brinkley, Johnny Boy, 74
Brinkley, Minnie. See Jones, Minnie
Brinkley, Sally. See Wike, Sally
Brinkley Goats (baseball team), 72
Brinkley-Jones Hospital, 72
Bristol, RI, 15–16, 17, 20, 21, 22
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 189
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 145
Brooklyn Standard Union (newspaper), 189
Brother Jonathan (a pitch artist), 229
Brown, John, 19
Browne, Katrina, 21
Brown University, 19
Bryan, William Jennings, 178
Bryant, William Cullen, 168
Buck, Carrie, 143–45
Budsberg, Ole, 48, 50
Buffalo Bill (fictional serial killer), 82
Buffett, Warren, 94