Jerry Kuntz

Historical research, Genealogy, Writing, Editing

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  • New Edition of Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines

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    After seventeen years, I decided to self-publish a revised and expanded edition of Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines, my 2009 work about brothers Alfred and George Lawson, the most eccentric siblings who ever careened their way through American society. Since 2009, as more primary source material became digitized, I had collected new nuggets of information…

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  • Ann Emerson Porter Forgotten Novella

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    Ann Emerson Porter ( a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson) was an American writer active 1860-1880. She was a founder of private schools in Springfield Vermont, and in Ohio. I stumbled across a novella she serialized for the Vermont Record and Farmer newspaper in 1867 called Jessie Varian’s Secret; or, the First and Last…

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  • The Writing Master, revised and expanded

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    My least-selling book, first published in 2019, is also my favorite. So much so, that once or twice a year I scour sources looking for new material that sheds additional light on the lives of criminal mastermind James B. Crosse and his paramour, Jane Fleming (aka Eusebia Lee/Fitzgerald/Woolley). This week I’ve published a new, revised…

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  • Hardcover Editions Now Available

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    Thanks to an enhancement to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, several of my self-published titles are now available in hardcover: The Writing Master: The Story of the Gentleman-Thief and Forger, James B. Crosse The American Prize Ring: Its Battles, Its Wrangles, and Its Heroes, 1812-1881 King of Burglars: The Heist Stories of Max Shinburn A Boy…

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  • The American Prize Ring : a history of bare-knuckle prizefights

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    I have been exposed to old issues of the National Police Gazette for many years, as I was researching the exploits of Nellie King; the forger James B. Crosse; and the hosts of criminals profiled by Thomas Byrnes. In doing so I noticed that issues in 1880 and 1881 contained a weekly column by William…

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  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot: Exploring an American Folk Legend

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    I’ve completed a (third) blog project that once again looks at the traditions of infamous criminals in America. The previous two projects were: Professional Criminals of America–REVISED Asbury’s The Gangs of New York — Annotated In this new project I’ve gone back further in time and concentrated on two specific individuals: the highwaymen Captain Thunderbolt…

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  • 204 Criminals Later…

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    Professional Criminals of America REVISED About a week ago, I finished researching and updating the last of the 204 criminal profiles included in Thomas Byrnes’s 1886 edition of Professional Criminals of America. This had been a year-long project, and one that I undertook thinking that the result might be adapted to print format. However, after…

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