Most of the lore surrounding America's Wild West has to do with cowboys and outlaws, but these boomtowns were also overrun with grifters, hustlers, and confidence men on the prowl. George Graham Rice was a legendary example of a crook who amassed a sizable fortune running a number of cons, including forgery, gambling, and promotion of gold and silver mines. This unflinching autobiography lays out all the gritty details.
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- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter I - The Rise and Fall of Maxim & Gay
- Chapter II - Mining Finance at Goldfield
- Chapter III - The Brewing of a Saturnalia of Speculation
- Chapter IV - The Greenwater Fiasco
- Chapter V - On the Eve of the Great Goldfield Smash
- Chapter VI - Nipissing and Goldfield Con
- Chapter VII - Rawhide
- Chapter VIII - The Press Agent and the Public's Money
- Chapter IX - The Wall Street Game
- Chapter X - Enter, B. H. Scheftels & Company
- Chapter XI - A Fight to the Death
- Chapter XII - The Lesson of it All
- Endnotes