by Paul Martin
Bunker, Archie (fictional character), 94
Burned-Over District in New York State, 166
Burns & Allen, 200
Burnt District, 105
Burroughs, George, 89
Burts, Matt, 125
business cons. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
businessmen and women
Daniel Drew (speculator), 93–99
David O’Keefe (South Pacific trader), 179–85
Don Lapre (pitchman and huckster), 227–33
Hetty Green (Wall Street investor/miser), 171–78
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory), 53–60
James DeWolf (slave trade), 15–22
John Brinkley (medical malpractice), 69–75
Cagney, James, 62
Cairo, IL, 24
California, 69–75
Burt Alvord in, 123
Chinese gangs in, 37–43
Hetty Green in, 176
involuntary sterilizations in, 148
John Brinkley in, 72
Libby Thompson in, 119
California State Board of Charities and Corrections, 148
Cannon, James, 34
Canton, China, 39
Cape York meteorites, 188
Capone, Al, 62, 64, 65, 66, 138
Carlson, Ester, 51
Carmel, NY, 94, 99
Carnegie, Andrew, 94, 177
Carnegie Institution for Science, 147
Caroline Islands, 180, 181–82, 183, 184, 185
Carroll, Earl, 200
Carson, Rachel, 209
case number 880, 222, 223, 224–25
Cassadaga, FL, 169
Cassidy, Butch, 126
Catholic Encyclopedia, 135
Catholicism, 159
cattle business, 93–95, 97
Cave-in-Rock, OH, 24, 25–26, 28
Chacon, Augustine “The Hairy One,” 124, 126
Chandler, Harry, 72
Chaplin, Charlie, 196
charlatanism. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Charleston, SC, 16, 17
Charles Town, WV, 25
Chase, Bert, 48–49
cheapskate, Hetty Green as a, 174, 176–77
Chee Kung Tong, 40
Chemical National Bank, 176
Chevy Chase College, 197
Cheyenne Indians, 29–30, 32, 33, 34
Chia Pets, 229
Chicago, IL
Belle Sorensen Gunnes in, 45–46, 47, 48, 51, 52
Charles Davenport in, 146
Chicago Renaissance, 205
Dean O’Banion in, 61–67
Hetty Green in, 176
John Brinkley in, 70, 72
Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil in, 129–30, 131–32, 135
Maxwell Bodenheim in, 205–206
Peggy Hopkins Joyce in, 195, 198, 199
Chicago Tribune (newspaper), 66, 81, 130, 134, 135
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 39
Chinese gangs, 37–43
Ching, Fong. See Fong Ching
Chisholm Trail, 116, 117
Chivington, John, 29–35
Chrysler, Walter, 196
circus, 95, 135
City College of New York, 212
Civil War, 12, 30, 31, 97, 99, 102, 107, 114, 166, 223
Clairmont, Robert, 207
Clanton, Billy, 122
Clanton, Ike, 122
Clark, Snow, 139
Cleaver, Ward and June (fictional characters), 145
Cochise County, AZ, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127
Cold Springs Harbor, NY, 146, 150
Cold War, 215
Collins, Charles, 20
Colorado
Libby Thompson in, 117
Sand Creek massacre, 29–35
Comanche Indians capture of Libby Thompson, 114
Communist Party. See American Communist Party
Congress. See House of Representatives; Senate
Congressman, Samuel Dickstein as, 211–18
con men. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Conrad, Joseph, 184
Cook, Frederick A., 188, 189–90, 191, 192
Cooper, James Fenimore, 168
Copper Queen mine, 133
copra, 181, 182, 183, 184
Corey, Giles, 89–90
Corinthian Hall, 167
Cortez, Aimee, 208
Cotton Tail, 117
Coughlin, “Bathhouse John,” 131
counterfeiter, Emerich Jeuttner as, 219–25
courtesan, Peggy Hopkins Joyce as, 195–201
Court of Oyer and Terminer, 88, 90
Coward, Noel, 196
Crain, Thomas, 58
Cramer, Joseph, 31, 32, 33
Crawford, James, 71, 74
Crime Does Not Pay—Enough (Weil), 135
Croker, Edward, 57, 60
“Crook.” See Dickstein, Samuel
Crook, William H., 110
Cuba, slaves in, 19, 20
Curtis, Samuel, 31, 32
Custer, George Armstrong, 34
dance hall girl, 115, 116–17
Darwin, Charles, 146, 166
Davenport, Charles Benedict, 143–51
Davenport Brothers (spiritualists), 168
Dear, Dorothy, 208
“Death” (poem by Bodenheim), 210
Del Rio, TX, 73, 74
Denver, CO, and the Sand Creek massacre, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34
Dewey, C. (dog), 177
DeWolf, Charles, 18
DeWolf, George, 18, 20
DeWolf, James, 15–22
DeWolf, John, 18
DeWolf, Levi, 18, 19
DeWolf, Mark Anthony, 18
DeWolf, Nancy (Bradford), 16
DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 21
DeWolf, William, 18
“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” (song), 201
Dickstein, Samuel, 211–18
Dickstein Resolution, 212
“Dickstein’s Monster.” See House of Representatives, House Un-American Activities Committee
Dies, Martin, 213
Dies Committee, 213–14, 215
dietary supplements, 231–32, 233
Dimples (silent film), 198
direct-response advertising on TV, 229
District Court in Arizona, 232
District Court in Washington, DC, 157–58
Dr. Strangelove (movie), 148
Dodge City, KS, 117, 118
dollar bills, counterfeiting of. See Juettner, Emerich
Downing, Bill, 125
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 165
Dreiser, Theodore, 206
Drew, Daniel, 93–99
Drew, Robinson & Company, 97
Drew, Virginia, 207–208
Drew Female Seminary, 99
Drucci, Vincent “Schemer,” 64, 66
Duffy, John, 66
Dugan, Mickey (fictional character), 131
Dunlap, “Three-Fingered Jack,” 124, 125
Durcal, Duke of, 199
Durocher, Leo, 48
Dutch Jake, 117
Earp, Morgan, 122
Earp, Virgil, 122
Earp, Wyatt, 114, 117, 122
earthquake in New Madrid, MO, 26–27
Easton, Anthony, 200
Eastwood, Clint, 11
Eclectic Medical University, 71
880, case number, 222, 223, 224–25
Elbow Lake, MN, 48
“Electro Medic Doctors,” 71
Eliot, T. S., 207
Ellesmere Island, 187
Ellsworth, KS, 117
ergot causing hallucinations, 90–91
Ermond, Charles, 49
eugenics and Charles Davenport, 143–51
Eugenics Record Office, 146, 149, 150
Euless, TX, 142
Evans, John, 34
Ewing, Thomas, 104–106
Examination of a Witch (Matteson), 89
Explorers Club, 189, 190
Fagan, Ruth, 209
Fairbank, AZ, 125
Falcon (steamer), 187–88
Farewell to Arms, A (screenplay), 206
FBI, 215, 216
F. C. Peters & Company, 39
Federal Radio Commission, 73
Federal Reformatory for Women, 159
Federal Theatre Project, 214
Federal Trade Commission, 74
Federal Writers’ Project, 208, 214
Fields, W. C., 200
“Fighting Parson.” See Chivington, John
Finan, Grace, 209
First Colorado Cavalry, 30, 31
Fishbein, Morris, 73, 74
Fish Committee, 213
Fisk, James, 97, 98
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 210
Flanagan, Hallie, 214
flimflam. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Folsom State Prison, 41
Fong Ching, 37–43
Food and Drug Administration, 231–32
Fordham University, 176
Ford’s Theatre, 12, 108, 109–110
forgery, Emerich Juettner as a counterfeiter, 219–25
Fort Henry, 25
Fort Leavenworth, 205
Fort Lyon, 29–30, 31
Fort Riley, 32
Fort Worth, TX, 114
Fox, John, 163
Fox, Kate, 163–70
Fox, Leah, 166, 169
Fox, Maggie, 163–70
Fox, Margaret, 163
Frances, Madame, 197–98
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 189
Frederick County, VA, 25, 109
French, Barton, 199
Friends of New Germany, 213
Front Page, The (screenplay), 206
Galton, Francis, 146
gambler, Alvin Thomas as a, 137–42
gangs, 23–28, 37–43, 61–67, 104–106, 123
Gein, Augusta, 78, 79
Gein, Edward Theodore “Ed,” 11, 77–82
Gein, Henry, 78, 79
Genna brothers, 65, 66
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos), 201
Georgia, David O’Keefe in, 179
Georgie May (Bodenheim), 208
Germany
desire for the Caroline Islands, 183
See also Nazi Germany
Gesell, Laurence E., 119
Gibson Girl look, 54
Gilded Age, 99
Gillars, Mildred “Axis Sally,” 11, 153–59
Gi Sin Seer Tong, 40
Glenwood Cemetery, 111
goat glands, 70, 72–73, 74
gold digger, Peggy Hopkins Joyce as, 195–201
Golden Globe Award, 225
golf course scams, 141–42
Gollmar, Robert H., 82
Gone with the Wind (screenplay), 206
Good, Dorcas, 88
Good, Sarah, 87, 88, 90
Goodman, Walter, 217
Gould, Jay, 97, 98
Grant, Doug, 231
Grant, Madison, 149
Grant, Ulysses S., 107, 108
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 210
Great Depression, 70, 200, 204, 208, 210
Greatest Vitamin in the World, 231–32, 233
Great Gatsby, The (Scott), 210
greed, 12, 52, 59, 74, 94, 130, 134, 159, 173, 215, 217
lack of greed, 222
Greeley, Horace, 168
Green, Edward, 175, 176, 177
Green, Gerald, 184
Green, Hetty, 171–78
Green, Ned, 175, 176, 177, 178
Green, Sylvia, 175, 178
Greenland, 187, 192
Greenville, SC, 71
Greenwich Village, poet of, 203–210
Greta Garbo Social Club, 207
grifters. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Grim Chieftain. See Lane, James H.
Gunness, Belle Sorensen, 45–52
Gunness, Peter, 47, 48, 52
Gunness, Philip, 48, 50
Gunsmoke (TV show), 115
Gurholdt, Henry, 48, 50
Guys and Dolls (musical), 138
Gwenn, Edmund, 225
Haley, James, 114, 115
Haley, Mary Elizabeth. See Thompson, Libby
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, 229
Han Chinese, 38
Hardin County, OH, 24
Hardy, Oliver, 57
Harpe, Micajah, “Big Harpe,” 26, 27
Harpe, Wiley, “Little Harpe,” 26, 27–28
Harriman, Mary, 147
Harris, Clara, 108
Harris, Ira, 108
Harris, Isaac, 53–60
Harvard College/University, 88, 90, 91, 146, 147
Haskell, Eddie (fictional character), 228
hatchet men. See “highbinders” (boo how ody)
Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, The (Weinstein and Vassiliev), 215
Hawkins, Jeb (fictional character), 24
Hecht, Ben, 206, 209, 210
Helgelein, Andrew, 49, 50
Helgelein, Asle, 49, 50
“Hell’s Belle.” See Gunness, Belle Sorensen
Henderson, KY, 25
Henson, Matthew, 192
Herbert, Wally, 191
Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (Davenport), 147, 149
Hermanville, MS, 204
Hezel, Francis X., 184
Hickok, Wild Bill, 116
“highbinders” (boo how ody), 40–41, 42, 43
highwaymen, 23–28
hijackings, 64
Hirsch, Michael, 56
His Majesty O’Keefe (Klingman and Green), 184
Hiss, Alger, 215
Hitchcock, Alfred, 77–82
Hitler, Adolf, 149, 150, 154, 211, 213, 214, 217
Hoffman, Abbie, 216
Hogan, Ben, 142
Hogan, Frank, 131
Hogan, Mary, 80
“Hogan’s Alley” (comic strip), 131
Holcomb, Crayton Philo, 182–83
Holliday, Doc, 114, 117, 122
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 145
Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character), 165
Holy Name Cathedral, 66, 67
Holy Name Parochial School, 63
Homeland Security, 222
“Home Sweet Home” (Nazi radio show), 156
Hong Kong, 180
Hood County, TX, 114
Hoover, J. Edgar, 216
Hopkins, Sherburne P., 197–98
horse racing scams, 132, 141
horseshoes, 141
Houdini, Harry, 138, 169
House of Representatives
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 212, 213–14, 215
Samuel Dickstein in, 211–18
Howland, Gideon, 172, 173
Howland, Sylvia, 172, 173, 174
How the West Was Won (movie), 24, 26
HUAC. See House of Representatives, House Un-American Activities Committee
hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Alvin Thomas (gambler), 138
Daniel Drew (speculator), 93–99
Don Lapre (pitchman and huckster), 227–33
John Brinkley (medical huckster), 69–75
Joseph Weil (con man), 129–35
Maggie and Kate Fox (Spiritualism), 163–70
Hudson, Ernest, 199
Hunter College, 156
Hurley, Elizabeth, 51
hustlers. See hucksters, swindlers, and cons
Hydesville, NY, 163, 166, 168
Illinois
Dean O’Banion in, 63
Mary Todd Lincoln returning to, 111
Samuel Mason in, 23, 24, 26
See also Chicago, IL
Indiana
Belle Sorensen Gunnes in, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52
involuntary sterilizations in, 148
James Lane in, 102
Indian John (slave), 87
infomercials of Don Lapre, 227–33
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trad
ing Dynasty in U.S. History (DeWolf), 21
insanity
Ed Gein found criminally insane, 81, 82
See also psychopaths
insurance claims
collected by Belle Sorensen Gunness, 46, 47
for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 58
Internal Revenue Service, 74, 231
International House (movie), 200
Inuits, 188, 192
involuntary sterilization. See eugenics and Charles Davenport
Irish Queen, 117
Jackson, Frank, 141
James, Edgar, 199
James, Frank, 104, 105, 106
James, Jesse, 105
James-Younger gang, 104–106, 125
Japan, 184
Jayhawkers, 102, 103, 104, 105
Jazz Age, 197, 200, 203–204, 207, 208, 210
Jersey City, NJ, 98
John J. Cisco and Son, 175–76
Johnson, Esther, 51
Johnson, Jim, 139
Joliet prison, 134
Jones, Minnie, 71, 72
Journal of the American Medical Association, 73, 74
Joyce, James Stanley, 195–96, 198–200, 201
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins, 195–201
Joyce, Stanley, 195–96
Joyce, William, 156
Juettner, Emerich, 219–25
June, Titus, Angevine & Crane Circus, 95
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry, 150
Kansas
James Lane in, 101–106
John Brinkley in, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73
John Chivington in, 31
Kansas Brigade, 102
See also Jayhawkers
Kansas City, KS, John Brinkley in, 70, 71, 73
Kansas City Star (newspaper), 73
“Kansas First, Kansas Best.” See KFKB radio station
Kansas Medical Board, 73
Keckley, Elizabeth, 111
Kellogg, John, 147
Kentucky, Samuel Mason in, 25, 26, 27
KFKB radio station, 72–73
KHJ radio station, 72
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, 229
King, Wong Doo, 43
“King of Chinatown.” See Fong Ching
Kiowa Indians, 30, 114
Klingman, Lawrence, 184
Koischwitz, Max Otto, 156–57, 158
Konitzberg, Herman, 48
Kreymborg, Alfred, 206
Ku Klux Klan, 214
Kutter, H. L., 130, 134
labor disputes at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 54
La Crosse, WI, 78
“Lady Bluebeard.” See Gunness, Belle Sorensen
Lady of the Orchids, The (play), 200
Lake Selbusjoen, Norway, 46
Lamarr, Hedley (fictional character), 122
Lamphere, Ray, 49, 50, 51, 52
Lancaster, Burt, 184
Lane, James H., 101–106
La Porte, IN, 47, 48
Lapre, Don, 11, 227–33
Laurel, Stan, 57
Lawrence, KS, massacre, 104–105
Leatherface (fictional character), 82
Leavenworth prison, 134
Lee, Lorelei (fictional character), 201
Lee, Robert E., 107, 108
Leech, Margaret, 108
Lee Chuck, 41
Lem Sier, 42
Leo XIII (pope), 183
