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Glenn H. Wakefield (1873–1939?), alias “Ham Bannister”: Five Poems by the Grifter Poet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2009
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1 [Edwin H. Sutherland?]. “Glenn H. Wakefield” (typewritten), n.p., n.d. This and the Wakefield items cited below are in the possession of the author. These items made available through the generosity of Professor Donald R. Cressey, late of the University of California-Santa Barbara.
2 A list of grifting games may be found in MacDonald, J. C. R.'s Crime is a Business: Buncos, Rackets, Confidence Games (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1938)Google Scholar; Smith, Edward H.'s, “Invention and the Grifter,” Scientific American, 129 (08 1923), 78–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Smith, 's “The Inventor and the Gay Gambler,” Scientific American, 129 (09 1923), 150–51.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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4 [Glenn H. Wakefield?], “Training for Grift” (typewritten), n.d., I.
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7 All poems are from “Circus Grift by an Old Circus Grifter,” 39–40.Google Scholar
8 Wakefield, “Knobby Clark” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.
9 Wakefield, “Robert Terry” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.
10 Wakefield, “Jim Siffley” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.
11 Wakefield, “John Henry Strawschneider” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.
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13 Wakefield, “John Talbert” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.