Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Henry Spalding; CHAPTER 2 Elias Davidson Pierce; CHAPTER 3 David Updyke; CHAPTER 4 Caleb Lyon; CHAPTER 5 Marion More; CHAPTER 6 Colonel Patrick Connor; CHAPTER 7 "Diamondfield" Jack Davis; CHAPTER 8 John Vollmer; CHAPTER 9 James McParland; CHAPTER 10 Fred T. Dubois; CHAPTER 11 Harry Orchard; CHAPTER 12 Weldon Heyburn; CHAPTER 13 Lyda Shaw; CHAPTER 14 Ezra Pound; CHAPTER 15 James Brown; CHAPTER 16 Richard Butler; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho's past-both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include