The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards

Lora-Marie Bernard, "The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards"
English | ISBN: 1540214095 | 2017 | 146 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
After Monroe Edwards died in Sing Sing prison in 1847, penny dreadfuls memorialized him as the most celebrated American forger until the turn of the century. With a bizarre biography too complicated for easy history, his critical contributions to Texas settlement, revolution and annexation were inextricably mired in his activities as a slave smuggler and confidence man. Author Lora-Marie Bernard unravels the unbelievable story of one of the most notorious criminal adventurers ever to set foot on the soil of the Lone Star State.