| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) |
| Contents |
Ned Buntline: all-American huckster -- Soapy Smith: Skagway's slippery sultan -- The great diamond hoax of 1872: diamonds are for swindlers -- Doc Baggs: Denver's high-end huckster -- Clark Stanley: the rattlesnake king (and others of the snake-oil set) -- George Devol: king of the riverboat gamblers (and Canada Bill Jones) -- James Addison Peralta-Reavis: Arizona's lord of fraud -- Alexander McKenzie: biggest claim-jumper ever -- Unhelpful guides: untested, untrue, unworthy! -- Death Valley Scotty: that likeable rogue -- The US government: shame, shame, shame -- Al Swearengen: Deadwood's deadbeat -- Pegleg Smith: king of all liars -- Sheriff Henry Plummer and his gang of innocents: killers and thieves -- Land war mongers of Johnson County: death of a champion -- Dr. Samuel Bennett: king of the thimble riggers (and other sleight-of-hand men) -- Lou Blonger: Mr. Fix-It (and more incurable con men) -- Land ho! Oregon's land fraud and the false promise of Mowry City, New Mexico -- Mary Gleim: Missoula's wicked woman (and a pair of gamblin' gals) -- Rustlers galore! Dutch Henry Born and Black Jack Nelson -- Old San Francisco: sink pit of swindlers -- Dr. John Brinkley: goat glands and radio waves (and another conning quack!) |
| Summary |
This lively and entertaining book tells the stories of con artists, gamblers, swindlers, and other nefarious characters who stampeded west in the quest to make money off the men and women who stampeded west in search of land and gold |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Swindlers and swindling -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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Swindlers and swindling.
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes
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| Subject |
West United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020739391 |
| ISBN |
9781493018048 |
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1493018043 |
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