COMPLIMENTS OF HAMILTON & SARGENT: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier

Using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families as a guide, Farrelly shares that they all experienced some form of humiliation after newspapers speculated on their possible shameful secrets: bigamy, blackmail, murder, incest, baby-selling, mental illness, and more. They fled to Wyoming, believing distance and remoteness would hide their shame. Illus.