Rope Walker: A Texas Jewish History Mystery – Table of Contents

Can you learn anything about a book just by looking at its table of contents? Here it is for my book, Rope Walker: A Texas Jewish History Mystery. The book is currently on sale at Bookbaby’s BookShop.  In March it will be officially released and available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and several other retailers.

Visit the Bookbaby page for Rope Walker to view the last ten pages of the book. That might give you some ideas about what’s in the book–or not.

If you are not already set up to receive a copy of the book (several Kickstarter fund contributors will be getting theirs soon), you can get 15% off by entering the coupon code CORSICANA (expires Christmas Eve).

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

▪ Extracts  x

▪ Key to Map of Corsicana  xii

▪ Map of Corsicana  xiii

▪ Location of Corsicana in Context  xiv

▪ Preface  xv

/ A Crippled Acrobat

Intrologue ▪ An Excitement Not on the Bills  1

1 ▪ A Rope Walker Stopped in Corsicana  4

            / A Jew in Texas

2 ▪ Written in Stone  8

3 ▪ Cerfs  16

4 ▪ Histories of the Jews of Corsicana—Texans  23

                        / A Legend

5 ▪ Walk into Oblivion  45

6 ▪ A Better Memorial  56

7 ▪ The Wonderful Country  61

8 ▪ Identity of “Rope Walker” Remains Unsolved Mystery  67

9 ▪ True Story  74

10 ▪ Descended from a Legend  80

Divertissement

11 ▪ Jesters  88

                                    / Tethered

12 ▪ Corsicana News  92

13 ▪ Professors  102

                                                / Untethered

14 ▪ Rope Walker Slipped Here  106

15 ▪ Molloy, Gulick, and Mulkey  118

16 ▪ Mary, Max, and a Mr. Simon  130

                                                            / Grounded

17 ▪The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier, and Rope Walker  136

18 ▪ Hebrew Poet Remarks: “O Legs!”  140

19 ▪ Certifications  146

                                                                        / Aligned

20 ▪ Kerrsicana  152

21 ▪ Confederate Doctors  158

22 ▪ Black Diamond  171

                                                                                    / Excised

23 ▪ The Real Mystery  183

24 ▪ Hebrews and Shebrews  189

25 ▪ The Jewish Church  202

26 ▪ Till Life Became a Legend of the Dead  204

27 ▪ Gone and Forgotten  209

                                                                                                / Reconsidered

28 ▪ Crushed  218

29 ▪ The Redemption of Billy Powers  224

                                                                                                            / Conclusion

30 ▪ The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth  229

31 ▪ A True Legend  236

Supplement I ▪ Temple and Synagogue  241

Supplement II ▪ Corsicana Rabbis  253

Supplement III ▪ Burials to 1890  274

▪ Abbreviations  292

▪ Notes  293

▪ Acknowledgements  357

▪ Illustrations  359

▪ Subject Index  363

▪ Names Index  369