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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

John Hanners
John Hanners
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Professor of Communication and Theatre, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas 75429, USA.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , August 1993 , pp. 244 - 248
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References

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

3 “G. H. W.” [Glenn H. Wakefield], “Circus Grift by an Old Grifter” (typewritten), n.d., 27A.

4 [Glenn H. Wakefield?], “Training for Grift” (typewritten), n.d., I.

5 See White, Percy C., “A Circus List,” American Speech, I (1926), 282–83CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Maurer, David W., “Carnival Cant: A Glossary of Circus and Carnival Slang,” American Speech, 6 (1931), 327–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Milburn, George, “Circus Words,” The American Mercury, 24 (1931), 351–54Google Scholar; Mulvey, Ruth, “Pitchmen's Cant,” American Speech, 17 (1942), 89–93CrossRefGoogle Scholar; DeBelle, Starr, Webster Was a Sucker: Dictionary of Mid-Way Slang (Cincinnati, Ohio: Billboard Publications, 1946)Google Scholar; and Wilmeth, Don B., The Language of American Popular Entertainment: A Glossary of Argot, Slang, and Terminology (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981).Google Scholar

6 Wakefield, , Letter, Glenn H. to Sutherland, Edwin H., 25 12 1937.Google Scholar

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.

12 “Circus Grift by an Old Circus Grifter,” 10.Google Scholar

13 Wakefield, “John Talbert” (typewritten), n.d., n.p.