From the Book - Regular Print
Ned Buntline: all-American huckster
Soapy Smith: Skagway's slippery sultan
The great diamond hoax of 1872: diamonds are for swindlers
Doc Baggs: Denver's high-end huckster
Clark Stanley: the rattlesnake king (and others of the snake-oil set)
George Devol: king of the riverboat gamblers (and Canada Bill Jones)
James Addison Peralta-Reavis: Arizona's lord of fraud
Alexander McKenzie: biggest claim-jumper ever
Unhelpful guides: untested, untrue, unworthy!
Death Valley Scotty: that likeable rogue
The US government: shame, shame, shame
Al Swearengen: Deadwood's deadbeat
Pegleg Smith: king of all liars
Sheriff Henry Plummer and his gang of innocents: killers and thieves
Land war mongers of Johnson County: death of a champion
Dr. Samuel Bennett: king of the thimble riggers (and other sleight-of-hand men)
Lou Blonger: Mr. Fix-It (and more incurable con men)
Land ho! Oregon's land fraud and the false promise of Mowry City, New Mexico
Mary Gleim: Missoula's wicked woman (and a pair of gamblin' gals)
Rustlers galore! Dutch Henry Born and Black Jack Nelson
Old San Francisco: sink pit of swindlers
Dr. John Brinkley: goat glands and radio waves (and another conning quack!)