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List of Illustrations
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Introduction Nondescript Places
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Chapter 1
A Hundred Dollars Crooked
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Chapter 2
The Midget Maestro
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Chapter 3
The Stroll
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Chapter 4
Sunset
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Chapter 5
Hock and Stomp Opus
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Chapter 6
The Loser Goes to the Hospital, the Winner Goes to Jail
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Chapter 7
The Bronze Peacock
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Chapter 8
The Gate Swings
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Chapter 9
'Tween the Tip In Inn and the Church of God
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Chapter 10
Roy Brown's Good Rockin' Revival
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Chapter 11
Female Trouble
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Chapter 12
All Part of the Game
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Chapter 13
A Little Like Going to Heaven
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Chapter 14
Crossover
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Chapter 15
Shootin' and Cuttin' and Shit
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Chapter 16
The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business
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Coda Renewal
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Afterword
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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