Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7907-5 (ISBN)
Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder.
This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.
The late John Stewart was the author of nonfiction books on a variety of topics including African states and rulers, Antarctica, the British Empire, Moons of the solar system, Italian movies, Broadway musicals, the British circus, Lord Byron, and the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond. Winner of numerous reference book awards, he lived in West Jefferson, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Trip of a Lifetime
Introduction: The Trapping of Hattie Lawton
1. One of Mother Fisher’s Children
2. The Taking On of Kate Warn
3. The Brothers Warn
4. My Name Is Timothy Webster
5. Bridge Master with a Secret
6. The Baltimore Plot
7. The End of Mary Ellen Bailey
8. Hattie and Tim Join the Secret Service
9. The India-Rubber Doll
10. The First Trip
11. The Miller’s Hotel Caper
12. The Second Trip
13. The Third Trip
14. The Fourth Trip
15. Lewis and Scully
16. The Pryce Lewis “Memoirs”
17. The Two Most Inept Spies in the World
18. Things Go Horribly Wrong
19. That Letter Has Sealed My Fate
20. Alone but for Specters
21. Mrs. Taylor
22. Scully’s Trial
23. Pryce Lewis’s Trial
24. The Priest, the Consul and a Deal
25. The Day They Came for Tim and Hattie
26. The Gag Order
27. The Trial of Tim
28. Post Trial
29. The Fatal Day Draws Nigh
30. The Morning of the Big Day
31. Tim Swings
32. Post Gibbet
33. The Languishing of Mrs. Timothy Webster
34. Hattie Gets Out
35. Notre Dame
36. Little Johnny and the Lost Cabin Mine
37. Post Pike’s Peak Syndrome
38. The Death of Kate Warn
39. Kate Warn’s Successor
40. The Portrait of Kate Warne
41. Carrie Lawton
42. Gambling Man
43. Warn Castle
44. The James Gang
45. Death by Poppy
46. Out on the Old Bozeman Trail
47. Three Girls Bonded for Eternity
Appendix A: The Warn Family
Appendix B: George Warn at Notre Dame
Appendix C: H.H.L.
Appendix D: Online
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7907-X / 147667907X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7907-5 / 9781476679075 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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