http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:23:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:43:33 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1585 Some years ago, while researching William Cowper Brann, editor of The Iconoclast, a turn-of-the-century Waco, Texas monthly, I encountered the multi-talented New York–born George Graham Rice, one of America's most successful and unscrupulous promoter-swindlers. This resulted from a natural confusion: one of Rice's stock market tout sheets was also named The Iconoclast. Read More]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585/feed 0