Gold to be made -- A bright and brainy woman -- A bastard catch'd -- The left-hand road -- The wanton widow -- Not so easily handled -- What shall we do with our daughters? -- For the likes of me -- ...

Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington Abbott is the author, most recently, of “Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy.” Her next book, ...