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An examination of an American fraternalist which analyzes his activities and questions his motives. Analyzes fraternal organizations within a spectrum of chicanery.

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This work calls into question current academic understandings of Victorian American fraternal organizations.

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A portrait of a quintessential American huckster

Dr William D. Moore
Boston University

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This page is a summary of: Darius Wilson, Confidence Schemes, and American Fraternalism 1869-1926, Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, October 2013, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/jrff.v3i1.8.
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