The Good, the Bad & the Mad: Weird People in American History

by Floyd, E. Randall

• ISBN13: 9781891799150
• ISBN10: 1891799150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Harbor House

Summary

In this compelling new book, historian and best-selling author E. Randall Floyd (Deep in the Heart, Great Southern Mysteries), probes the darker side of more than 40 unforgettable men and women who left their mark on our historical record-saints and sinners, villains and visionaries, angels and assassins. Some rose to fame and fortune and led the country to greatness. Others lurked in the shadows, quietly orchestrating chaos and madness. But all of them made history in profound, sometimes shocking ways. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

"The most dangerous woman in America"	p. 1
Crown prince of humbug	p. 7
Dapper explorer was "doomed to wander"	p. 12
"Nobody will find my old bones"	p. 17
"High Priestess of the Weird"	p. 21
"And when she saw what she had done..."	p. 25
"America's Most Mysterious Man"	p. 29
The "Fighting Parson" of Colorado	p. 34
"Unimagined worlds, far beyond the horizon"	p. 40
"Anybody can make an honest mistake"	p. 44
Golden-haired son of the Morning Star	p. 48
The "King of Kooky Cranks"	p. 52
"This woman is an outrage!"	p. 56
The man who would be king	p. 61
The most hated man in America	p. 66
The "Wicked Witch" of Wall Street	p. 70
"His soul is in glory"	p. 75
"No power on earth can restrain me"	p. 81
The tortured genius who walked alone	p. 85
The demon-haunted savior of the Confederacy	p. 90
Cajun queen of the undead	p. 95
The demigod of Dixie	p. 100
At the mountains of madness	p. 105
"Weakness is a crime"	p. 110
The dark world of Salem's most famous witch hunter	p. 115
"Shouting out the devil" along the frontier	p. 118
The Emperor of San Francisco	p. 123
Cowardly commander or misunderstood hero?	p. 127
"Under a blazing cross they will come"	p. 132
"We will all be Indians, united forever"	p. 139
Tales from the hollow earth	p. 143
Reclusive "crackpot" who changed the world	p. 148
"I heard a loud voice in the heavens"	p. 153
The "gray-eyed man of destiny"	p. 157
Reluctant guardian of the spirits	p. 161
Monster or martyr?	p. 166
Mystic warrior of the Plains	p. 172
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