Saints, Sinners and Sailors of the Gilded Age: A compendium of biographical sketches centered on the Gilded Age in the Thousand Islands

By Rex Ennis

"Saints, Sinners and Sailors of the Gilded Age" is a compendium of biographical sketches relating to the people who inhabited the Thousand Islands during the Gilded Age. The book was inspired by the 1895 map of the Islands reproduced by the Thousand Islands Land Trust a few years ago. That map includes the rich and famous as well as the not so rich, the farmers, lawyers, entrepreneurs and a crook or two that made the Thousand Islands their summer home. After all what is the history the Thousand Islands if it is not the history of the people that made it the place to be during the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age that period of time between the Civil War and the First World War, when America's industry was hitting its stride and vast fortunes were being made. You will find men like Charles Probandt, a Texas real estate developer, and the Reverend James Kenyon, the Thousand Islands poet, Captains of industry like raliroad tycoon Alexander Mitchell, US Steel's Alexander Peacock, stockbroker James Oliphant, Waldorf's George Boldt, American Tobacco's Charles G. Emery, and even an embezzler. There are hundreds of names of people who made America and Canada great! Read the history of the Thousands Islands as told by the lives of the people who lived it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615432123
• ISBN13: 9780615432120
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Abendroth & Root Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.4" x 7.0"