Historia
Subtitle: July 1, 1922
By: by W. Campbell, in charge of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Published: 1922
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Death and burial; Assassination
Description: "Oklahoma the mecca for men of mystery, spurns regal splendor to bask in Oklahoma sunshine; echos from the battle field of Nance; did the Corsican Fiddle charm the hills of America? John Wilkes Booth. Escape and wanderings until ending the trail at Enid. Death-bed confession that he was Lincoln's assassin, etc."
Notes: Finis Langdon Bates (1848-1923) was a Memphis, Tennessee, lawyer and author of The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth (1907). In his 309-page book, Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, was not killed by Union Army soldiers on April 26, 1865, but successfully eluded capture altogether, and lived for many years thereafter under a series of assumed names, notably John St. Helen and David E. George.  in Enid, Oklahoma, David E. George committed suicide by ingesting poison on January 13, 1903 and made a deathbed confession to being John Wilkes Booth. Papers found on George requested Finis Bates to be summoned and on January 23, 1903, Bates identified the body as that of his old acquaintance John St. Helen.
Table of contents: title: John Wilkes Booth.; title: Side-lights on Booth in Oklahoma (reproduced from Historia, October, 1919.); title: General Dana's version.; title: Oklahoma the mecca for men of mystery.; title: A ghost from the battlefield.; title: Cannon Ball Green.