Episode 103: Disappointment (ad-free) (Patreon)

Humanity is fueled by hope. We hope for improvement, and dream of a day when things get better than they are right now. And for a very long time, there have been certain people who have taken advantage of that hope. What they deliver instead is an unexpected dose of darkness.

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Further Reading 

1. “A History Of 'Snake Oil Salesmen’,” NPR, August 2013, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-history-of-snake-oil-salesmen
2. Ron Bopp, “Norman Baker (A Life History),” Carousel Organ, No. 28 (July 2006): 15-25.
3. Steve Weems, “Notes from the Hollow,” Eureka Springs Independent, Vol. 3, No. 35 (February 2015): 15.
4. Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2002).
5. Timothy M. Kovalcik, Eureka Springs Revisited: The Gilded Age, 1879-1900 (unpublished manuscript, 2013).
6. Matthew Mayo, Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West's Sleaziest Swindlers (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
7. Janice Tremeear, Haunted Ozarks (Charleston, SC: Haunted America, A Division of the History Press, 2013) pp. 145-151.
8. June Westphal and Kate Cooper, Eureka Springs: City of Healing Waters (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2012).
9. D. R. Woolery, The Grand Old Lady of the Ozarks (Eagles' Nest Press, 2000) pp. 73-79.