A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans

Cast of characters

John Billington: Mayflower MurdererMary Dyer: Quaker MartyrAnne Bonny: Pirate of the CaribbeanTom Quick: “The Indian Slayer”Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee”William Dawes: The Other Midnight RiderJames T. Callender: Muckraker for the First AmendmentJohn Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the WorldElizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal AmericanStephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too)Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed TecumsehZilpha Elaw: An Unlikely EvangelistEdwin Forrest: American IdolRose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportion Rose O'Neal GreenhowClement Vallandigham: CopperheadMary Surratt: The Mother of Conspirators?Tunis Campbell: Pillar of ReconstructionSarah Winnemucca: “Piaute Princess”Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation” Alexander Robey ShepherdIsaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge”Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street”Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the EastAnna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s DayWilliam J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes”Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel Gaston MeansLouise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic WildernessBeulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison”Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan”Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen”Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop