Word: altgeld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...
Gone to join the shadows with Altgeld* the Eagle...
...Altgeld was Governor of Illinois in 1896. ? From "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" in Collected Poems?Vachel Lindsay?Macmillan...
Born at Kinsman, Ohio, Apr. 18, 1857, Darrow, without much education, in his early twenties made his way to Chicago. There he studied law at night; became the partner of Governor Altgeld. His first important murder case was as defender, in the 90's, of the youth Prendergast, who had killed Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. His client in this instance was hanged, but Darrow's defense was characterized by no less an observer than Brand Whitlock as the "most eloquent appeal for mercy that he had ever heard...