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A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans, pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history, Michael Farquhar

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A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans, pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history, Michael Farquhar

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256)

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contains biographical information

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no index present

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non fiction

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A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans

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bibliography

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155755445

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Michael Farquhar

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pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history

Table Of Contents

John Billington : Mayflower murderer -- Mary Dyer : Quaker martyr -- Anne Bonny : pirate of the Caribbean -- Tom Quick : "The Indian Slayer" -- Mary Jemison : "The White Woman of the Genesee" -- William Dawes : the other midnight rider -- James T. Callender : muckraker for the First Amendment -- John Ledyard : the explorer who dreamed of walking the world -- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte : royal American -- Stephen Pleasonton : the clerk who saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, too) -- Richard Mentor Johnson -- Zilpha Elaw : an unlikely evangelist -- Edwin Forrest : American idol -- Rose O'Neal Greenhow : a spy of grand dame proportions -- Clement Vallandigham : Copperhead -- Mary Surratt : the mother of conspirators? -- Tunis Campbell : pillar of Reconstruction -- Sarah Winnemucca : "Paiute Princess" -- Alexander "Boss" Shepherd : the man who made Washington "worthy of the nation" -- Isaac C. Parker : "The Hanging Judge" -- Hetty Green : "The Witch of Wall Street" -- Oliver Curtis Perry : outlaw of the East -- Anna Jarvis : the mother of Mother's Day -- William J. Burns : "America's Sherlock Holmes" -- Gaston B. Means : American scoundrel -- Louise Arner Boyd : the socialite who conquered the Arctic wilderness -- Beulah Louise Henry : "Lady Edison" -- Guy Gabaldon : "The Pied Piper of Saipan" -- Elizabeth Bentley : "Red Spy Queen" -- Dick Fosbury : father of the flop

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Foolishly forgotten Americans

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