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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pioneer Crazies
1: Grizzly Adams (John Adams, Arnold, Calaveras County)
2: Psycho Hooker (Ida Brewer, Sacramento)
3: The Geek (Tom McAlear, San Francisco)
4: Psycho Politician (David Terry, Stockton/San Francisco/Lathrop)
5: Shanghai Chicken (John Devine, San Francisco)
6: Voodoo Queen (Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco)
7: Elusive as a Will-o’-the-Wisp (James Dunham, Campbell)
8: First in Flight (Lyman Wiswell Gilmore, Grass Valley, Nevada County)
9: Crazy Cowboy (C.M. Jones, Sacramento)
10: It’s a Gas! (Edna Fuller, San Francisco)
The Rise of Southern California Nutjobs
11: Death by Ostrich (Billy Ritchie, Los Angeles)
12: Little Miss Bohemian (Aline Barnsdall, Los Angeles)
13: Silent Fall (Larry Semon, Hollywood)
14: In His Sister’s Shadow (Jack Pickford, Los Angeles)
15: True Square (Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles)
16: Grumpy Stooge (Jerome Horwitz, Los Angeles)
17: Big Bill (Bill Tilden, Hollywood)
18: The Brat Wagon (Margaret Rowney, Van Nuys)
19: Fraidy Cat (Samuel Horwitz, Los Angeles)
20: Nature Boy (eden ahbez, Los Angeles)
21: Rocket Scientist (Marvel “Jack” Parsons, Pasadena)
22: Friday on His Mind (Jack Webb, Los Angeles)
23: Genius in Angora (Ed Wood, Los Angeles)
24: The Not-So-Little Rascal (Carl Switzer, Los Angeles)
25: 20th Century Nostradamus (Jerome King Criswell, Los Angeles)
26: A Brilliant Man (Hermann Schultheis, Los Angeles)
27: Lovable Crank (William Frawley, Los Angeles)
28: The Rebel (Nick Adams, Los Angeles)
Only in California
29: The Terror Bandit (Clarence “Buck” Kelly, San Francisco)
30: Black and White and Read All Over (Harry French, Alturas, Modoc County)
31: Big Daddy (Eric Nord, San Francisco/Venice)
32: The Educated Idiot (John Russell Crooker, Bel Air)
33: Firebug (Stanford Pattan, Glenn County)
34: It’s Friday! (William Liebscher, Fairfax, Marin County)
35: The Gold Coast Princess (Karyn Kupcinet, West Hollywood)
36: Shame on You (Spade Cooley, Willow Springs, Kern County)
37: Fleecing the Flock (C. Thomas Patten, Oakland)
38: The Ruler (John “Bunny” Breckenridge, San Francisco/Los Angeles)
39: The Sacramento Vampire (Richard Trenton Chase, Sacramento)
40: The Grifter (Dorothea Puente, Sacramento)
41: Taxed Out (Jim Ray Holloway, Sacramento)
42: Savannah Smiled? (Shannon Wilsey, Los Angeles)
43: The Naked Guy (Andrew Martinez, Berkeley)
44: From Russia, with Hate (Nikolay Soltys, Sacramento)
45: The Gambler (Frank Gambalie, Yosemite National Park)
46: A Different Drummer (Jim Gordon, Los Angeles)
47: The Panty King (Roy Raymond, San Francisco)
48: The Tower of Wooden Pallets (Daniel Van Meter, Sherman Oaks)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Previous or Forthcoming Works
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