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Author:   Greta Fisher
Publisher:   Red Lightning Books
Imprint:   Red Lightning Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781684351879

ISBN 10:   1684351871
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   06 September 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction An Auspicious Beginning A Budding Career and a Blossoming Criminal Diversification: Social Networks, Political Influence, and the Importance of Family The Founding of the Order of Owls Legal Trouble: The Talbot Brothers on the Defensive Leona Mason Tries to Put Him Down Death and Resurrection Unwanted Owls A Profit in Syphilis An Owl Rebellion and the Charitable Institutions that Weren't Can't Keep Out of Trouble and Other Odd Behavior Not Just Owls: Talbot Cultivates an Interest in Exotic Birds (the Kind with Feathers) ""She Is Certainly Having a Fine Time"" ""Guilty as Sin"": Talbot Is Sent to Leavenworth The Ex-Convict: Talbot Is No Longer Supreme A Quieter Life A Fiery Death The Fate of the Order of Owls Talbot's Legacy Postscript Appendix A: Order of the Owls Handbook Appendix B: The Character and Life of John W. Talbot Exposed by an Outraged Woman Appendix C: The Question Notes Bibliography"

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Greta Fisher cooly travels us through So Much Bad in the Best of Us: The Salacious and Audacious Life of John W. Talbot. No one can make up the kind of ordinary citizen gullibility that ran rampant around South Bend, Indiana, starting as early as 1872 and continuing to lope along the echelons of society for the next sixty-five years and counting. . . . The enduring scheming legacy of Talbot resides within the Order of Owls. Never heard of it? Neither did I, and now I am amazed and saddened. Owls deserve a better rap. -- Rita Kohn * Nuvo *

Author Information

Greta Fisher is a genealogist and historian born and raised in Indiana. She specializes in Central European immigration to the Midwest and enjoys placing family stories in historical context. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, and this is her first book.

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