https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:30:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:43:33 +0000 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.]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1585/feed 0