Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Frenchman’s Visit
2. “The Place of My Nativity”
3. Putting Down Roots
4. “A Striking Specimen of Beauty”
5. At the Spirits’ Command
6. A Buried Man’s Instructions
7. The Trumpet Medium
8. Communication from Angels
9. Allies and Kin
10. Mountain Tea
11. Sustaining “Brother Koons”
12. The Mesmeric Potion
13. Not One Single Copper
14. Koons, King, and Company
15. “An Artful and Designing Rogue”
16. Galileo in Eclipse
17. An Arc of Golden Roses
18. “Their Humbug Art”
19. The Psychometrist
20. Little Egypt
21. “The Venerable Johnathan Koons”
Epilogue
Afterword. Koons in Legend: Gold and Dross
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
