02388cam a2200337 i 4500 380709618 TxAuBib 20181012120000.0 150625s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015020111 9780762789658 0762789654 (OCoLC)899226246 TxAuBib rda Mayo, Matthew P. Hornswogglers, fourflushers, and snake-oil salesmen : true tales of the old west's sleaziest swindlers / Matthew P. Mayo. Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2015] xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Ned Buntline: all-American huckster -- Soapy Smith: Skagway's slippery sultan -- The great diamond hoax of 1872: diamonds are for swindlers -- Doc Baggs: Denver's high-end huckster -- Clark Stanley: the rattlesnake king (and others of the snake-oil set) -- George Devol: king of the riverboat gamblers (and Canada Bill Jones) -- James Addison Peralta-Reavis: Arizona's lord of fraud -- Alexander McKenzie: biggest claim-jumper ever -- Unhelpful guides: untested, untrue, unworthy! -- Death Valley Scotty: that likeable rogue -- The US government: shame, shame, shame -- Al Swearengen: Deadwood's deadbeat -- Pegleg Smith: king of all liars -- Sheriff Henry Plummer and his gang of innocents: killers and thieves -- Land war mongers of Johnson County: death of a champion -- Dr. Samuel Bennett: king of the thimble riggers (and other sleight-of-hand men) -- Lou Blonger: Mr. Fix-It (and more incurable con men) -- Land ho! Oregon's land fraud and the false promise of Mowry City, New Mexico -- Mary Gleim: Missoula's wicked woman (and a pair of gamblin' gals) -- Rustlers galore! Dutch Henry Born and Black Jack Nelson -- Old San Francisco: sink pit of swindlers -- Dr. John Brinkley: goat glands and radio waves (and another conning quack!.) 20181012. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Anecdotes. Swindlers and swindling West (U.S.) Biography. Biography Anecdotes. West (U.S) Biography Anecdotes. Anecdotes. Biography.