Search for the Desperado Will Harris

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Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...

The Scourge of Sugar Creek_

Episode 164 we ask the rhetorical question, Will the real Will Harris please stay jail. It seems Will Harris was the go-to non de plume for a number of Southern scoundrels around the turn of the 20th century. At times that the press is confused, the police are confused, and  the town folk are confused, shedding doubt on whether or not they have THE real desperado, or an imposter, or just another desperado by the same name.

Vocabulary: Persiflage: light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.Smilax: a climbing asparagus, the decorative foliage of which is used by floristsTheme Music by Dave Sams

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun