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Relying on secondary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and personal accounts from those involved, this volume captures some of the sensational true stories that took place in the western United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The theme that runs through each of the stories is the general contempt for the law that seemed to pervade the culture at the time and the consuming desire to acquire wealth at any cost--what Geoffrey C. Ward has called ""the disposition to be rich.""

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Steven L. Piott is currently an emeritus Professor of History at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He has also been a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand. He is the sole author of seven monographs—The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business (Greenwood, 1985); Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea (University of Missouri Press, 1997); Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America (University of Missouri Press, 2003); American Reformers, 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Daily Life in the Progressive Era (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2011); Americans in Dissent: Thirteen Influential Social Critics of the Nineteenth Century (Lexington Books, 2014); and Daily Life in Jazz Age America (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2019).

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