Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues

by Paul Martin

  17. Linnda R. Caporael, “Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?” Science, April 2, 1976, http://web.utk.edu/~kstclair/221/ergotism.html (accessed February 9, 2012). See also Linder, “Witchcraft Trials in Salem.”

  18. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Charles William Sever, 1873), pp. 200–201.

  19. “William Stoughton, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts,” p. 11. See also Emory Washburn, Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts from 1630 to the Revolution in 1775 (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840) p. 245.

  CHAPTER 11. UNCLE DANIEL THE “SPECKERLATOR”—DANIEL DREW

  1. Clifford Browder, The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986), pp. 2, 275. See also Peter C. Holloran, “Drew, Daniel,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00454.html (accessed February 13, 2010); Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), p. 77; and Bouck White, The Book of Daniel Drew: A Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed Régime from the Inside (Larchmont, NY: American Research Council, 1910), p. vii.

  2. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, pp. 8–9.

  3. Ibid., p. 12.

  4. Ibid., pp. 35–37.

  5. Ibid., pp. 37–39. See also Holloran, “Drew, Daniel,” and Klein, Life and Legend of Jay Gould, p. 77.

  6. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, pp. 40–44.

  7. Ibid., p. 57.

  8. White, Book of Daniel Drew, p. viii.

  9. Holloran, “Drew, Daniel.” See also Klein, Life and Legend of Jay Gould, p. 78, and W. A. Swanberg, Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959), p. 30.

  10. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, p. 1.

  11. Tyler Anbinder, “Tweed, William Magear,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-01002.html?a=1&n=William%20Tweed &d=10&ss=0&q=1 (accessed March 31, 2010). See also, Holloran, “Drew, Daniel.”

  12. White, Book of Daniel Drew, p. v.

  13. Holloran, “Drew, Daniel.” See also Klein, Life and Legend of Jay Gould, pp. 90–91, and Swanberg, Jim Fisk, p. 73.

  14. Holloran, “Drew, Daniel.” See also Klein, Life and Legend of Jay Gould, pp. 90–91, and Swanberg, Jim Fisk, pp. 75–79.

  15. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, p. 274.

  16. “About the University,” University Information, Drew University, http://www.drew.edu/university.aspx (accessed April 1, 2010). See also Browder, Money Game in Old New York, pp. 1, 92, 120, 134; “Daniel Drew,” All Biographies, http://all-biographies.com/business/daniel_drew.htm (accessed February 20, 2010); and Holloran, “Drew, Daniel.”

  17. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, pp. 275–76. See also Klein, Life and Legend of Jay Gould, p. 77.

  18. Browder, Money Game in Old New York, pp. 38–39, 275. See also Ginny Jones, “Tramps & Millionaires,” New Spirits, October 28, 2005, http://alfred.vassar.edu:8180/newspirits/tramps_millionaires (accessed March 3, 2010).

  19. Jones, “Tramps & Millionaires.”

  CHAPTER 12. UNLEASHING THE JAMES-YOUNGER GANG—JAMES LANE

  1. Albert Castel, “Kansas Jayhawking Raids into Western Missouri in 1861,” Missouri Historical Review, October 1959, reprinted by Civil War St. Louis, November 15, 2003, http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/History2/casteljayhawking.htm (accessed July 30, 2009). See also Thomas Goodrich, Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861–1865 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), p. 7; Edward E. Leslie, The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders (New York: De Capo Press, 1998), p. 93; and Jay Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, 1854–1865 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), pp. 195–97.

  2. Goodrich, Black Flag, p. 16.

  3. Castel, “Kansas Jayhawking Raids.” See also Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 16, 24–26; “James Henry Lane (1814–1866),” West Film Project, PBS Station WETA, 2001, http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/lane.htm (accessed August 4, 2009); Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 11–12, 210; Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 197; and “Obituary: James H. Lane, United States Senator from Kansas,” New York Times, July 4, 1866.

  4. Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 16, 23. See also Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 197.

  5. Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, p. 11.

  6. Castel, “Kansas Jayhawking Raids.” See also “Dry Wood Creek,” Battle Summary, National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/mo005.htm (accessed July 31, 2009), and Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 196.

  7. Castel, “Kansas Jayhawking Raids.” See also, Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 17–18; Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, p. 92; and Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 196.

  8. Castel, “Kansas Jayhawking Raids.” See also Goodrich, Black Flag, p. 18, and Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 92–93.

  9. Goodrich, Black Flag, p. 18. See also Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 92–93, and Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 196.

  10. Marley Brandt, The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1992), pp. 3, 44. See also Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998), p. 28; Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 26–28; Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 93, 194; and Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 196.

  11. Brandt, Outlaw Youngers, p. 45. See also Castel and Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson, p. 28, and Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 193, 210.

  12. Castel and Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson, pp. 28–29. See also Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 77–79, and Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 201–203, 209.

  13. Castel and Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson, p. 29. See also Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 94–95, and Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 286.

  14. Brandt, Outlaw Youngers, pp. 49–50. See also A. Loyd Collins and Georgia I. Collins, Hero Stories from Missouri History (Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Co., 1956), pp. 121–22, 124; Robert L. Dyer, Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), pp. 37–38; Goodrich, Black Flag, p. 100; and Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 174–75, 257–58.

  15. Collins and Collins, Hero Stories from Missouri History, pp. 124–25. See also Dyer, Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri, pp. 37–38; Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 97–98; and Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 258, 260–62.

  16. Brandt, Outlaw Youngers, pp. 62–63. See also Dyer, Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri, pp. 3, 50; Goodrich, Black Flag, pp. 135, 163–64; Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 378–79; and Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell, Civil War in the Ozarks (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1993), p. 109.

  17. Brandt, Outlaw Youngers, pp. 4, 50–52, 65, 72–73, 167. See also Dyer, Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri, pp. 1, 3, 50–51; Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, p. 379; and Steele and Cottrell, Civil War in the Ozarks, pp. 121–23.

  18. Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 381–82. See also Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, p. 351, and “Obituary: James H. Lane.”

  19. Leslie, Devil Knows How to Ride, pp. 381–82.

  CHAPTER 13. LINCOLN’S MISSING BODYGUARD—JOHN PARKER

  1. Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), pp. 378–80. See also Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, vol. 4 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), p. 257.

  2. Leech, Reveille in Washington, pp. 387–88. See also Eric Martin, interpreter presentation, Ford’s Theatre, National Park Service, July 2009, and Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, pp. 261–62.

  3. Leech, Reveille in Washington, pp. 391–92. See also Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 262; “Security,” Mr. Lincoln’s White House, Lincoln Ins
titute, 1999, http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/content_inside.asp?ID=78&subjectID=3 (accessed July 12, 2009); and “Soldiers’ Home,” Mr. Lincoln’s White House, Lincoln Institute, 1999, http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/content_inside.asp?ID=119&subjectID=3 (accessed March 15, 2010).

  4. R. J. Norton, “John F. Parker: The Guard Who Abandoned His Post,” Abraham Lincoln Research Site, December 29, 1996. http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln61.html (accessed June 15, 2009). See also “John Parker,” Mr. Lincoln’s White House, Lincoln Institute, 2002, http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=63&subjectID=2 (accessed June 18, 2009); Emerson Reck, Abraham Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1987), p. 163; and Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, pp. 272–73.

  5. Norton, “John F. Parker.” See also Reck, Abraham Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, p. 163.

  6. Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, pp. 272–73.

  7. Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 382. See also Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 257.

  8. Martin, interpreter presentation. See also Norton, “John F. Parker,” and Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, pp. 278–79.

  9. “Ford’s Theater,” Mr. Lincoln’s White House, Lincoln Institute, 1999, http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=188&subjectID=4 (accessed July 8, 2009). See also Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 278, and Martin, interpreter presentation.

  10. William H. Crook, Through Five Administrations:Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), pp. 72, 74.

  11. Reck, Abraham Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, p. 164. See also Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 273.

  12. Becky Rutberg, Mary Lincoln’s Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley’s Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante (New York: Walker, 1995), pp. 110–11.

  13. Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 273.

  CHAPTER 14. SQUIRREL TOOTH ALICE—LIBBY THOMPSON

  1. Laurence E. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind: The Saga of Squirrel Tooth Alice and Texas Billy Thompson (Chandler, AZ: Coast Aire Publications, 2001), p. 10.

  2. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 10, 199–200, 440. See also David H. Murdoch, The American West: The Invention of a Myth (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2001), pp. ix–xii, 1–2, 10–11.

  3. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 20–22. See also Kathy Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice,” Legends of America, March 2008, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-squirreltooth.html (accessed June 12, 2011).

  4. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 21–24, 269. See also Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  5. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, p. 24. See also Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  6. “Along the Chisholm Trail,” TheChisholmTrail.com, http://www.thechisholmtrail.com/cont.htm (accessed August 5, 2011). See also “The Beginning of the Chisholm Trail,” Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, 2009, http://www.onthechisholmtrail.com/trail-info (accessed August 4, 2011); Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 24–25; Jim Gray, “Abilene, Kansas,” Kansas Cowboy, http://www.kansascattletowns.org/abilene/abilene_history.html (accessed August 4, 2011); and Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  7. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, p. 233. See also Kathy Weiser, “Painted Ladies of the Old West,” Legends of America, January 2010, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-paintedlady.html (accessed August 4, 2011).

  8. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 220, 225, 236, 242–46, 269–70. See also Cy Martin, Whiskey and Wild Women: An Amusing Account of the Saloons and Bawds of the Old West (New York: Hart Publishing, 1974), pp. 22, 24; Michael Rutter, Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West (Helena, MT: Farcountry Press, 2005), pp. 1, 18–24; Weiser, “Painted Ladies of the Old West”; and Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  9. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 207, 458. See also Rutter, Upstairs Girls, p. x, and Weiser, “Painted Ladies of the Old West.”

  10. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 169–70, 272–73. See also Murdoch, American West, p. 1, and Kathy Weiser, “Wild Bill Hickok & the Deadman’s Hand,” Legends of America, January 2010, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-billhickok.html (accessed August 4, 2011).

  11. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 11, 84–86, 237. See also Martin, Whiskey and Wild Women, pp. 9–10, 162–63, 213.

  12. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 12, 25, 39–41, 50. See also Gray, “Abilene, Kansas”; W. R. (Bat) Masterson, “Ben Thompson and Other Noted Gunmen,” reprinted by Legends of America, February 2010, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-benthompson.html (accessed August 4, 2011); Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice”; and Kathy Weiser, “Wyatt Earp—Frontier Lawman,” Legends of America, February 2010. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-wyattearp.html (accessed August 4, 2011).

  13. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 11, 226. See also Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice,” and Weiser, “Wyatt Earp—Frontier Lawman.”

  14. “Dodge City History,” KansasCattleTowns.org, http://www.kansascattletowns.org/dodge_city/dodgecity_history.html (accessed August 7, 2011). See also Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 10–11, 25, 327–28, 338–39, 346, and Weiser, “Wyatt Earp—Frontier Lawman.”

  15. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 12, 199–200, 440–41.

  16. Ibid., pp. 10, 25, 328–29. See also Alfred Henry Lewis, “Bat Masterson—King of the Gunplayers,” reprinted by Legends of America, December 2012, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-batmasterson.html (accessed January 11, 2013), and Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  17. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 325–26, 400, 411. See also Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  18. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 236, 400, 406–14. See also Weiser, “Texas Madam Squirrel Tooth Alice.”

  19. Gesell, Saddle the Wild Wind, pp. 433, 435, 440.

  20. Ibid., pp. 432–33.

  CHAPTER 15. THE LAWMAN WHO WENT BAD—BURT ALVORD

  1. “Cochise County’s Legendary Past Sprang from Three R’s: Riches, Railroads, and ‘Roughs,’” Cochise Pressroom, Cochise County, Arizona, http://www.explorecochise.com/press.php (accessed June 12, 2010). See also Douglas O. Linder, “The Earp-Holliday Trial,” University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2005, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/earpaccount.html (accessed June 9, 2010); “Tombstone, Arizona,” City of Tombstone, 2009, http://www.cityoftombstone.com (accessed June 11, 2010); and “Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park,” Arizona State Parks, http://azstateparks.com/parks/TOCO/index.html (accessed June 15, 2010).

  2. Linder, “Earp-Holliday Trial.” See also “Yesterday’s Tragedy: Three Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment,” Tombstone Daily Epitaph, October 27, 1881, reprinted by University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/epitaph.html (accessed June 9, 2010).

  3. “Blazing Saddles (1974), Quotes,” IMDb, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes (accessed June 10, 2010).

  4. Don Chaput, The Odyssey of Burt Alvord: Lawman, Train Robber, Fugitive (Tucson: Westernlore Press, 2000), p. 11, back cover. See also Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of American Crime, vol. 1 (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2001), p. 23.

  5. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 25, 29–30. See also Kathy Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw,” Old West Legends, Legends of America, November 2009, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-BurtonAlvord.html (accessed June 14, 2010).

  6. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 33–34, 38–39. See also Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23, and Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  7. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 50, 52–53. See also Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23.

  8. Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  9. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 37–38.

  10. Ibid., pp. 62–65, back cover. See also James
Harvey McClintock, “The Cochise Train Robbery,” from Arizona: The Youngest State (Chicago: S .J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1916), reprinted by Legends of America, November 2009, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-cochiserobbery.html (accessed June 15, 2010); Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23; and Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  11. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 62–65. See also McClintock, “Cochise Train Robbery,” and Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23.

  12. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 69–72. See also McClintock, “Cochise Train Robbery.”

  13. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 81–86. See also Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  14. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, pp. 107–109, 116. See also McClintock, “Cochise Train Robbery”; Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23; and Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  15. Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23. See also Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  16. Chaput, Odyssey of Burt Alvord, p. 120.

  17. Ibid., pp. 131–32. See also McClintock, “Cochise Train Robbery”; Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, p. 23; and Weiser, “Burt Alvord—Lawman Turned Outlaw.”

  CHAPTER 16. THE VERY MELLOW YELLOW KID—JOSEPH WEIL

  1. W. T. Brannon, “The Wiles of the Yellow Kid,” Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1948, pp. B5, 14. See also J. R. “Yellow Kid” Weil and W. T. Brannon, “Yellow Kid” Weil: The Autobiography of America’s Master Swindler (Oakland, CA: AK Press/Nabat, 2011, reprint of 1948 edition), pp. 100, 293, and “Weil Loses His Sangfroid as Accuser Glares,” Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1924, p. 9.

  2. “Kid Weil Picks Bosom of Law as a Hideaway,” Chicago Tribune, August 6, 1937, p. 1. See also Joseph McNamara, The Justice Story: True Tales of Murder, Mystery, Mayhem (Champaign, IL: Bannon Multimedia Group, 2000), p. 195; Mr. Weil’s Art,” Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1931, p. 10; and Weil and Brannon, “Yellow Kid” Weil, p. 293.