by Paul Martin
Letellier, Henri, 199
Lewis, Del, 126
Lewis, Mercy, 89
Lily Dale, NY, 169
Lincoln, Mary (Todd), 108, 111, 165
Lincoln, Abraham and the missing bodyguard, 107–112
Linden Place (mansion), 20
Little Hellions (street gang), 63
“Little Pete.” See Fong Ching
Little Review, The (magazine), 205
Liveright, Horace B., 203–204
Loeb, Gladys, 207
London, England, 174–75
Long Branch saloon, 117
“long cons,” 131, 133
Loos, Anita, 201
Lord Haw Haw. See Joyce, William
Lord Jim (Conrad), 184
Lord’s Prayer, 89
Los Angeles, CA, 113–14, 127
Los Angeles Times, 72
Louisiana Territory, 26, 27, 28
Lynchburg, VA, 144
“Making Money” (self-help package sold by Lapre), 228, 230
malpractice and John Brinkley, 69–75
manslaughter, Harris and Blanck charged with, 57
Mapia (island), 184
Marble Heart, The (play), 110
Marlowe, Christopher, 214
Marona, IL, 62–63
Marshall Islands, 184
Mason, Samuel, 23–28
Massachusetts
Herbert Bridgman in, 189
Hetty Green in, 172
politicians from, 212
Salem witch trials, 85–92
massacres
James Lane causing Lawrence massacre, 101–106
John Chivington and Sand Creek massacre, 29–35
St. Valentine’s Day massacre, 62, 66
Masters, Catherine. See O’Keefe, Catherine
Masters, Edgar Lee, 206
Masterson, Bat, 114, 118
Masterson, Sky (fictional character), 138
Mather, Cotton, 88, 90
Mather, Increase, 90
Matteson, T. H., 89
Maus, Mary America, 109
Maverick, Maury, 217
Maxson, Joe, 50
May, James, 27–28
Mays, Billy, 229
McCarthy, Joseph, 216, 217
McCormack, John, 212
McCormack-Dickstein Committee. See House of Representatives, House Un-American Activities Committee
McGovern’s bar and brothel, 63
McKelway, St. Clair, 224
McLaury, Frank, 122
McLaury, Tom, 122
McManus, George, 140–41
media manipulation, 187–93
medical malpractice of John Brinkley, 69–75
medical treatment, Hetty Green trying to obtain free, 172, 177
mediums. See spiritualism and the Fox sisters
Memphis, TN, 71, 205
Men, Marriage, and Me (Joyce), 196
Mendel, Gregor, 146
Meriwether, Doc, 131
Merlo, Mike, 65
Method (movie), 51
Methodist church, 94, 99
Metropolitan Police Force, 108, 109, 111
Mexican-American War, 102
Mexican Rurales, 126
Meyer, Andrew, 200–201
“Midge at the Mike” (Nazi radio show), 156
Milford, KS, 69, 70, 72, 118
Milton, John, 12, 30
mind-reading scam, 133
Minna and Myself (Bodenheim), 206–207, 210
Minnesota, 48, 105
Minnesota Fats, 138
Miracle on 34th Street (movie), 225
Miranda (ship), 190
miser, Hetty Green as a, 174, 176–77
Mishawaka, IN, 49
Miss 1917 (musical revue), 198
Mississippi
Maxwell Bodenheim in, 204
Samuel Mason in, 26, 27
Mississippi River, 23, 24, 26, 28
Miss Kitty (fictional character), 115
Missouri
Alvin Thomas in, 139, 140
James Lane in, 101–106
Samuel Mason in, 26
Missouri-Kansas border war, 102, 104–105
attack on Lawrence, KS, 103–104
Missouri State Guard, 103
Mister 880 (movie), 225
Mob and Dean O’Banion, 61–67
Mobeetie, TX, 118
Monroe, Harriet, 205
Monroe, Marilyn, 201
Moo, John, 48, 50
Moran, George “Bugs,” 64, 66
Morgan, J. P., 94, 133, 177
Mormonism, 166
Morner, Gosta, 200
Mount, The (DeWolf mansion), 16
Mountain View, OK, 118
Mount Carmel Cemetery, 62
Mount McKinley (Denali), 190
Mouvet, Maurice, 199
Mueller, Edward. See Juettner, Emerich
Munro, Wilfred H., 22
Murray, Ed, 38
Mutiny on the Bounty (screenplay), 206
Naked on Roller Skates (Bodenheim), 208
Natchez Trace, 24, 27
National Archives, 191
National Geographic (magazine), 191
National Geographic Society, 190, 192
National Historic Landmark, 60
Native Americans
capture of Libby Thompson, 114
massacre of, 29–35
Natural History (magazine), 191
Nazi Germany
and eugenics, 145, 149, 150
Mildred Gillars as propagandist for, 153–59
US Congress reaction to, 212, 213–14, 217
Nelson, Byron, 138, 142
New Bedford, MA, 173
New Castle, PA, 49
New Deal, 208
New Jersey
Daniel Drew in, 210
and Hetty Green, 176, 178
Maxwell Bodenheim in, 210
New Madrid, MO, 26, 27
Newman, Paul, 131
New Mexico, John Chivington in, 30, 31, 33, 34
Newport, RI, 17
New Republic (magazine), 207
New Rochelle, NY, 203–204
newspaper classifieds, 230
New Strategies (company), 230
New York & Erie Railroad, 97–98
New York City, 95, 97
Alvin Thomas in, 140
Daniel Drew in, 95, 97
Emerich Juettner in, 219–25
Hetty Green in, 171–78
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck in, 53–60
Maggie and Kate Fox in, 168–69
Maxwell Bodenheim in, 206, 208, 209
Mildred Gillars in, 155
Peggy Hopkins Joyce in, 195–96, 198, 199
Samuel Dickstein in, 212
New York Daily Tribune (newspaper), 184
New Yorker (magazine), 158–59, 207, 224
New York Evening Post (newspaper), 200
New York Law School, 212
New York State
Charles Davenport in, 143–51
Daniel Drew in, 93–99
estate taxes for Hetty Green, 178
Herbert Bridgman in, 189
Maggie and Kate Fox in, 163–70
Maxwell Bodenheim in, 203
Samuel Dickstein in, 211–18
New York State Supreme Court, 215, 217
New York Times (newspaper), 175, 178, 192, 208, 217, 224
New York Tribune (newspaper), 51, 189
New York University, 60
900 telephone lines, 230, 231
Nogales, AZ, 124, 126
Norfolk, VA, 25, 197
Norfolk Street Synagogue, 212
Norris, Frank, 42
North Korea and counterfeit American currency, 223
North Pole, discovery of, 188–89, 190, 191–92, 193
North Side Gang, 62, 64, 65, 66
North State Street flower shop, 64
Notorious (screenplay), 206
Noureddin Vlora (prince of Albania), 199
O’Banion, Charles “Dean,” 61–67
O’Banion, Viola, 61, 64
Ohio
John Chivington in, 30
Mildred Gillars in, 155, 159
Samuel Mason in, 23–28
Ohio River, 23–24, 26, 28
Ohio Wesleyan University, 155, 159
O. K. Corral, 122–23
O’Keefe, Catherine, 180, 182, 184
O’Keefe, Charlotte, 182, 183
O’Keefe, David, 179–85
O’Keefe, Dolibu, 182, 183, 184
O’Keefe, Louisa “Lulu,” 180, 182, 184
O’Keefe’s Kanteen, 185
O’Keefe’s Waterfront Inn, 185
“Old Mr. 880.” See Juettner, Emerich
Old West, the
Burt Alvord (outlaw), 121–28
James-Younger gang, 104–106, 125
Libby Thompson (madam in the Old West), 113–19
Olsen, Jennie, 47, 50
O’Neill, Eugene, 206
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 166
Oradell, NJ, 210
Orange Glo, 229
Order No. 11, 104–105
O’Reilly, Mae, 51
Osage River, 101
Osborn, Sarah, 87
Oscar nomination for Edmund Gwenn, 225
Osceola, MO, sacking of, 103, 105, 106
Others (magazine), 206
Ouijah board, 168
Our American Cousin (play), 108
outlaws
Burt Alvord, 121–28
James-Younger gang, 104–106
Samuel Mason, 23–28
Overman Committee, 213
Oxford University, 88
OxiClean, 229
Pacific region, David O’Keefe in, 179–85
Page, Patti, 114
Palace Theatre, 198
Palau (island), 181
Palm Beach, FL, 199
Palo Pinto, TX, 118
Pani, Joe, 199
panics of 1893 and 1897, 176
Paris, France
Mildred Gillars in, 155
Peggy Hopkins Joyce in, 196, 199
Parker, John Frederick, 12, 107–112
Parris, Betty, 86, 87, 90
Parris, Samuel and Elizabeth, 86–87
Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History, The (Grant), 149
PBS, 21
Pearce, AZ, 124
Pearl Harbor, 156
Peary, Josephine, 188
Peary, Marie, 188
Peary, Robert E., 12, 187–93
Peary Arctic Club, 189, 192
Peg Leg Annie, 117
People’s Line, 96
Perkins, Frances, 59
Phips, William, 88, 90
Phoenix, AZ, 229
photoengraving counterfeit money. See Juettner, Emerich
pirate, Samuel Mason as, 23–28
pitchman, Don Lapre as, 227–33
Plainfield, WI, 77–78, 79, 80, 81
Pocket Fisherman, 229
poet of Greenwich Village, Maxwell Bodenheim as, 203–210
Poetry (magazine), 205
Poland, German invasion of, 155
Polly (ship), 19
Ponzi schemes, 133
Popeil, Ron, 229
Portland, ME, 155
Portuguese Diamond, 201
Postal Service, 74
Powers, Tom (fictional character), 62
prairie dogs, Libby Thompson keeping as pet, 116
Prescott, Zebulon, 24
Price, Sterling, 103
Princess Lotus Blossom (a pitch artist), 229
privateers, 19
Profit Per Minute: How to Get into the 900 Number Business (Lapre), 230
Prohibition, 62, 64, 66, 140, 197, 207
propagandist
Herbert Bridgman selling the Robert Peary story, 187–93
Mildred Gillars “Axis Sally” for Nazi Germany, 153–59
prostitution, 115, 116, 117, 118–19
Providence, RI, 229
psychic phenomena. See spiritualism and the Fox sisters
Psycho (movie/book), Ed Gein as inspiration for, 11, 77–82
psychopaths
Adolf Hitler as, 154
Belle Sorensen Gunnes as, 52
Micajah and Wiley Harpe as, 26
Public Enemy, The (movie), 62
Putnam, Ann, 90
Putnam family, 89
pyromania, 46
Qing Dynasty, 38
Quakers, 166, 172
Quantrill, William, 104
Race Betterment Foundation, 147
Race Crossing in Jamaica (Davenport), 148–49
racial purity. See eugenics and Charles Davenport
radio, use of, 72–73, 74
rai (Yap currency), 181, 185
railroads, 39, 97, 147, 175, 176, 179
train robberies, 124–25
Rathbone, Henry, 108
Rawling, Linus, 24
Reconstruction, 111–12
Red Banks, KY, 25
Redfield, Mary, 164
Redford, Robert, 131
Red Menace, 215
Replenishing Jessica (Bodenheim), 204, 207
Revolutionary War, 19, 25
Rhode Island
Don Lapre in, 229
James DeWolf in, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Rhode Island College (Brown University), 19
Richmond, VA, 197
Ripper, Jack D. (fictional character), 148
river pirate, Samuel Mason as, 23–28
Roaring Twenties, 70, 140, 196–97, 204, 207, 210
Robinson, Abby Howland, 172, 173
Robinson, Edward Mott, 172, 173–74
Robinson, Henrietta Howland. See Green, Hetty
Rochester, NY, 166, 167
Rockefeller, John D., 94, 177
Rockefeller Foundation, 147
Rocky Mountain News (newspaper), 33
Rogers, AR, 138–39
rogues, definition of, 11
Roman Empire treatment of forgers, 223
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 59, 154, 208
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 147
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 215
Rothstein, Arnold, 140–41
Rovere, Richard H., 158–59
Royal Geographical Society of Denmark, 190
RRG (German state radio system), 154, 155, 156, 158
Rubin, Jerry, 216
Rüdin, Ernst, 150
Runyan, Paul, 138
Runyon, Damon, 138
Russian Revolution, 213
safecracking, 63
St. David’s Island, 181–82
St. Joseph, MO, 140
St. Louis, MO, 140
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, 99
St. Regis Hotel, 195
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 62, 66
Salem witch trials, 12, 85–92
Sam Yup Company, 40
Sandburg, Carl, 111, 206
Sand Creek massacre, 29–35
San Francisco, CA
Alvin Thomas in, 138, 140
Fong Ching in, 37–43
San Francisco Chronicle (newspaper), 42
Santa Cruz (schooner), 184
Saracino, Sara and Tessie, 54, 56, 59
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 228
Savannah, GA, 180, 183
Sbarbaro funeral home, 61
scalps, collecting of, 25
Scandinavia, WI, 48
Schein, Minna, 206–207, 209, 210
Schofield Company, 64
scientific racism, 148
Scott, Cora L. V., 167–68
scoundrels, definition of, 11
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 209
séances. See spiritualism and the Fox sisters
Secret Heroes: Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World (Martin), 11, 12
Secret Service and Emerich Juettner, 222, 223, 224
selective breeding. See eugenics and Charles Davenport
Seminarius (merchantman ship), 16–17
Se
nate, 20, 216
Seneca Falls, NY, 166
serial killers
Belle Sorensen Gunness, 45–52
Ed Gein, 77–82
John Brinkley, 75
Sewall, Samuel, 90
Shakers, 166
shell game, 131
Shepherd, William, 55–56
“Shirtwaist Kings.” See Blanck, Max; Harris, Isaac
“short cons,” 131
Shubert, Lee, 196
Sibley, John Langdon, 91
Sibley Warehouse, 64
Sicilian Union, 65
Silence of the Lambs, The (movie), 82
Silk Hat Harry (a pitch artist), 229
Silver Shirts of America, 213
Sioux Indians, 30, 33
Six Companies (Chinese benevolent associations), 40
Slaughter, John, 123–24
slavery
issue of in Kansas Territory, 102
James DeWolf as slave trader, 15–22
Slave Trade Act (1794), 19
Sleepless Night, A (play), 198
Slocum, Charles, 17
Slow Vision (Bodenheim), 208
Small Ads, Big Profits: How You Could Turn $30 into a Fortune (Lapre), 230
Smith, Joseph, 166
Smithsonian National Gem Collection, 201
Smokeless Ashtray, 229
Smoky Hill River, 32
Snead, Sam, 142
Some Like It Hot (screenplay), 206
Sonsorol (island), 184
Sorensen, Axel, 47
Sorensen, Belle. See Gunness, Belle Sorensen
Sorensen, Caroline, 47
Sorensen, Lucy, 47, 48, 50
Sorensen, Mads, 46–47
Sorensen, Myrtle, 47, 48, 50
Soule, Silas, 31, 32–33, 34
South Pacific, David O’Keefe in, 179–85
South Pole, 190
South Side gang, 64, 65
Soviet Union, Samuel Dickstein spying for, 212, 214–15
Spain, desire for the Caroline Islands, 183
Spanish-American War, 183
Sparrow, Jack (fictional character), 28
Spaulding, Evan, 199
Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities (HUAC). See House of Representatives, House Un-American Activities Committee
spiritualism and the Fox sisters, 163–70
Sports Illustrated (magazine), 142
Springfield Republican (newspaper), 189
spy, Samuel Dickstein as, 212, 214–15
Squires, Charles, 34
Squirrel Tooth Alice. See Thompson, Libby
Stagecoach (screenplay), 206
Stalin, Joseph, 214
Stanford University, 148
Stanton, Edwin, 108
Starnes, Jo, 214
Star Saloon, 110
State University of New York, 189
Station for Experimental Evolution, 146, 150
steamboat business, 95–97
Steinbeck, John, 210
sterilization, involuntary. See eugenics and Charles Davenport
Steuer, Max, 57, 58
Stiles, Billy, 125–26
Sting, The (movie), 131
Stittsworth, William, 70, 72
stock manipulation/swindles, 97, 132