Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “The B’hoys of Those Dreadful Days”
Chapter 1. “A True Specimen of the B’hoys”: Mose the Fireman Takes the Stage
Chapter 2. “The Mose Season” and Beyond: A Quarter Century of Mose Sketches
Chapter 3. “A Scurvy Pantheon”: The Boys of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Elsewhere
Chapter 4. “The Great-Hearted Bowery-Boy Type”: Comedy, Farce, and Musicals from the Postbellum to the Progressive Era
Chapter 5. A Thriller “with a Big T”: Melodrama, Crime, and Adventure with the Bowery Boy in the Progressive Era
Chapter 6. “The Original Chimmie Fadden”: Chuck Connors and the Last of the Bowery Boys
Epilogue. “The Rowdy of Then and Now”
Notes
Bibliography
Index