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“Then an orderly brought up the goat from the basement.”
― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
“Agents from Sacramento traveled fifteen hundred miles to arrest the goat-gland king. To the governor of Kansas, Jonathan M. Davis, they presented their warrant for extradition. Davis handed it back and told them to go home. Asked why he refused to surrender Brinkley, the governor was disarmingly frank. “We people in Kansas get fat on his medicine,” he said. “We’re going to keep him here so long as he lives.”
― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
― Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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