A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks.

Cast of characters

John Billington: Mayflower Murderer

Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr

Anne Bonny: Pirate of the Caribbean

Tom Quick: “The Indian Slayer”

Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee”

William Dawes: The Other Midnight Rider

James T. Callender: Muckraker for the First Amendment

John Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the World

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal American

Stephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too)

Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed Tecumseh

Zilpha Elaw: An Unlikely Evangelist

Edwin Forrest: American Idol

Rose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportion Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead

Mary Surratt: The Mother of Conspirators?

Tunis Campbell: Pillar of Reconstruction

Sarah Winnemucca: “Paiute Princess”

Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation” Alexander Robey Shepherd

Isaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge”

Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street”

Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the East

Anna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day

William J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes”

Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel Gaston Means

Louise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic Wilderness

Beulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison”

Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan”

Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen”

Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop

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