THERE WERE THREE FACETS TO THE STORY
OF FRANKIE SILVER. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH THANKS TO MY GUIDES ON THOSE THREE ROADS:
Carolyn Sakowski for Morganton
Wayne Silver for Kona
Jay Brandon for 1830s criminal law
The rich never hang; only the poor and friendless.
– Perry Smith
executed in Kansas, 1965,
for the murder of the
Clutter family