{"id":2489,"date":"2017-01-26T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:09:09","slug":"the-counterfeit-prince-of-old-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Book Signing: Saturday, March 18th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lora-Marie Bernard<\/strong> joins us with her biography of Texas confidence man Monroe Edwards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/counterfeit-prince-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"counterfeit-prince-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/counterfeit-prince-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/counterfeit-prince-cover-340w-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>After Monroe Edwards died in Sing Sing prison in 1847, penny dreadfuls memorialized him as the most celebrated American forger until the turn of the century. With a bizarre biography too complicated for easy history, his critical contributions to Texas settlement, revolution and annexation were inextricably mired in his activities as a slave smuggler and confidence man. Author Lora-Marie Bernard unravels the unbelievable story of one of the most notorious criminal adventurers ever to set foot on the soil of the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lora-Marie Bernard<\/strong> is an award-winning crime, public affairs, and investigative journalist whose Texas nonfiction focuses on the state\u2019s resources and historical figures. She lives in Clear Lake City in Houston.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Signing: Saturday, March 18th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m. The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards Lora-Marie Bernard joins us with her biography of Texas confidence man Monroe Edwards. After Monroe Edwards died in Sing Sing prison in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2489\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}