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  title info:
    title: Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
    sub title: a story of mystery and tragedy on the Gilded Age frontier
  name:
    name part: Farrelly, Maura Jane
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the Gilded Age United States, using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to start over as her guide. Robert Ray Hamilton was a state lawmaker from New York and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. John Dudley Sargent came from a long line of Brahmin families in New England that included several colonial governors and the famous painter John Singer Sargent. Edith Drake Sargent was the eccentric and musical daughter of a New York banker who had made a fortune selling short. All three experienced some form of humiliation after newspapers speculated on their possible shameful secrets, included bigamy, blackmail, murder, incest, baby-selling, mental illness and more. All three fled to Wyoming, believing distance and remoteness would hide their shame. But by the 1890s the West was no longer a place where anyone could hide. Just as many today are learning that the internet has opened up a vast wilderness of information to exploration and settlement-enabling our mistakes and transgressions to follow us for years-so, too, did Hamilton and the Sargents learn that technology and the growing power of celebrity journalism made it difficult for anyone in the West to leave a scandal-ridden past behind. Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent is a story about the early demise of our right to be forgotten.
  table of contents: Stories -- Revolutionary legacies -- Blueberries and timber -- The fourth estate -- Charity begins at home -- Off with their heads -- The cable railway grab -- Baby waifs -- Cowpunching -- One of God's garden spots -- Final resting places -- Like cures like -- Marymere -- Little Girls -- Katharine and Catherine -- Family matters -- Strings.
  note: Maura Jane Farrelly.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-wy
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sargent, John Dudley
      name part: 1861-1913
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hamilton, Robert Ray
      name part: 1851-1890
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sargent, Edith Drake
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: Wyoming
    geographic: Jackson Hole
  subject:
    geographic: Jackson Hole (Wyo.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Scandals
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: New York (N.Y.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
  classification: F767.T28 F37 2024
  classification: 978.7/55030922 B
  identifier: 9781496237057
  identifier: 1496237056
  identifier: 9781496239273
  identifier: 9781496239280
  identifier: 2023037531
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240307
    record change date: 20250820133405.7
    record identifier: in00005642844