A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks.

Cast of characters

 * John Billington: Mayflower Murderer
 * Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr
 * Anne Bonny: Pirate of the Caribbean
 * |Tom Tom Quick: “The Indian Slayer”
 * Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee”
 * William Dawes: The Other Midnight Rider
 * James T. Callender: Muckraker for the First Amendment
 * John Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the World
 * Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal American
 * Stephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too)
 * Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed Tecumseh
 * Zilpha Elaw: An Unlikely Evangelist
 * Edwin Forrest: American Idol
 * Rose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportion Rose O'Neal Greenhow
 * Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead
 * Mary Surratt: The Mother of Conspirators?
 * Tunis Campbell: Pillar of Reconstruction
 * Sarah Winnemucca: “Paiute Princess”
 * Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation” Alexander Robey Shepherd
 * Isaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge”
 * Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street”
 * Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the East
 * Anna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day
 * William J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes”
 * Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel Gaston Means
 * Louise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic Wilderness
 * Beulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison”
 * Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan”
 * Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen”
 * Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop