Hornswogglers Fourflushers And Snake Oil Salesmen

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493018043
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and –women who traveled West to seek their fortunes by preying on the men and women who went before them to settle and explore. These stories of who they were, what they did, and why they are remembered for their deeds include ample and engaging historic illustrations of the shady characters at work and at play.

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Two Dot Books
ISBN 13 : 9780762789658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hornswogglers, Fourflushers, and Snake-Oil Salesmen written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Two Dot Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and entertaining book tells the stories of con artists, gamblers, swindlers, and other nefarious characters who stampeded west in the quest to make money off the men and women who stampeded west in search of land and gold.

Author : Jane Marie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982155779
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling the Dream written by Jane Marie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for March 2024 * A Bustle Best New Book of Spring 2024 Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories close, stalwart industries shutter, and blue-collar opportunities evaporate, MLMs are there, ready to pounce on the crumbling American Dream. MLMs thrive in rural areas and on military bases, targeting women with promises of being their own boss and millions of dollars in easy income—even at the risk of their entire life savings. But the vast majority—99.7%—of those who join an MLM make no money or lose money, and wind up stuck with inventory they can’t sell to recoup their losses. Featuring in-depth reporting and intimate research, Selling the Dream reveals how these companies—often owned by political and corporate elites, such as the Devos and the Van Andels families—have made a windfall in profit off of the desperation of the American working class.

Author : Susan Sawyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493018922
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Ohio History written by Susan Sawyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume in this series features fifteen to twenty short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given city, state, or region of the U.S. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books. Ohio has more than its fair share of stories of women who chose arsenic as the way to eliminate "problems" from their lives, along with corrupt politicians, thieves, unscrupulous gamblers, and other con artists. Read about Dr. John Cook Bennett, who made a fortunate off his belief that diplomas were better bought than earned; Olympic gold medalist James Snook, whose sordid affair took a deadly turn; and Nancy Farrar, whose culpability for one man's murder was as unclear as her mental status.

Author : Nann Parrett
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560376678
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montana Madams written by Nann Parrett and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men flooded to the Montana frontier for gold, furs, rich land, and jobs. Women followed, but their options were more limited. Here are stories of women who made a desperate choice, turning the law of supply and demand to their advantage. Many eked out a meager but independent existience; grit and business acumen brought remarkable wealth and influence—even respectability—to a few. From Alzada to Yaak, these enterprising women shaped Montana communities, in some cases helping to fund social programs and public education.

Author : Marcus Galloway
Publisher : Five Star
ISBN 13 : 9781432832643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snake Oil written by Marcus Galloway and published by Five Star. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Badlands of the Dakota Territories, Henry Whiteoak crosses paths with a string of bounty hunters out to claim the growing price that had been put on his head."--

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Five Star Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781432831837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outfit written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Five Star Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granted his freedom on the promise that he will bring in the young daughter of Californias governor, who is stuck in a life of drug addiction and prostitution in Deadwood, Rafe teams up with his old partner Cookie on a mission that will test their mettle.

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Five Star
ISBN 13 : 9781432832421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outfit written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Five Star. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good . . . but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoning. Meanwhile, Black Jack Smith attends a high-stakes poker tournament in Santa Fe, where he encounters southern gambler Colonel Rufus Turlington the Second, and his powerful covert Brotherhood of the Phoenix. The group plans to make good on its rallying cry: "The South shall rise from the ashes, reborn!" in a brutal public lynching--with visiting President Ulysses S. Grant as its swinging centerpiece. Returning to the ranch after dealing with the vicious killer, Knifer, and his midget partner, Plug, in Denver, Rafe and Cookie discover a cryptic telegram from Jack, something about a phoenix, a word that conjures specters from their secret-agent war days. The men ride for Santa Fe with Doc in tow, driving his latest invention, Ethel the War Wagon. Stakes are high and the men bet all in hopes they aren't too late to save the President of the United States, and prevent the rebirth of a scourge long thought dead. It's up to Rafe, Cookie, and the rest of THE OUTFIT to extinguish the rising flames of villainy and hatred.

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762768967
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine Icons written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine is many things to many people—a haven in a world of headaches, a fir-stippled paradise where summer comes slow and easy, a place that is heartbreaking to leave and a relief to return to. It is the way life should be. More specifically, Maine is 3,500 miles of enchanting coastline, the 5,267-foot elevation of Mount Katahdin, and of course her hardy, friendly folks. Maine Icons illustrates the quintessential symbols that make Maine so fascinating and unique. Profiled here are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary state, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. From bean hole beans to L.L.Bean, here’s the inside story about the very things that give this state its character. Did you know that the annual Maine Lobster Festival includes a parade, a lobster-crate race, and more than 20,000 pounds of lobster cooked in the world’s biggest lobster boiler? That it was a woman, Cornelia Thurza “Fly Rod” Crosby, who became the first licensed, registered Maine Guide in 1897? Or that the earmuff was patented in the 1870s by young Chester Greenwood, who went on to be named one of America’s top fifteen outstanding inventors? For Mainers and newcomers alike, Maine Icons will be a treasured keepsake of this charming state.

Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762786337
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vermont Icons written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Vermont is illustrated through gorgeous photographs and evocative essays, showcasing 50 iconic places, events, inventions, foods, and objects from the Green Mountain State.