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Genre/Form: | Case studies |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurence J Yadon; Robert B Smith |
ISBN: | 9781589808638 1589808630 |
OCLC Number: | 659769803 |
Description: | 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: slick cons and smooth grifters -- Doc Baggs and some kindred spirits -- Elmer Mead: master of the magic wallet -- Relentless: the odyssey of J. Frank Norfleet -- Soapy Smith: the soap man cometh -- Lou Blonger: the king of Denver -- Dr. John Romulus Brinkley: the rejuvenator -- Patrick Henry: the Yazoo land grabber -- P.T. Barnum: godfather of the frontier swindlers -- James Addison Reavis: perchance to dream -- Philip Arnold: the diamond king and other mining grifters -- Dr. Richard C. Flower: a scandal at Spenazuma -- Albert Fall: the art of the bribe. |
Responsibility: | by Laurence J. Yadon and Robert Barr Smith. |
Abstract:
Drawing attention to the role of America's bunco artists in the making of the American West, this well-documented history features a collection of sham transactions and fraudulent practices that would have made Charles Ponzi and Bernard "Bernie" Madoff blush.
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