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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans : : Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History

Farquhar, Michael. Book - 2008 973 Fa 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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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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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 256 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143113058
0143113054

SUBJECTS
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
United States -- Anecdotes.