In the mid-19th century, an industrializing and expanding republic presented innumerable opportunities for artistes with the appropriate combination...
The Greatest of Confidence Men
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Daniel R. Seligman
The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
Acquaintances knew the gentleman as Charles Bolton, a 50ish, affable owner of a mine outside San Francisco, California. He sported a cane, derby...
Frank Butler
Frank Butler, Annie Oakley’s husband, has to be one of the most unjustly maligned figures in the American West. Films portray him as a philandering...