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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Dana Plato, Han van Meegeren, John Edward Robinson, James Reavis, Kevin Trudeau, Mark Hofmann, William Chaloner, Matthew Cox, Frank Abagnale, Johnny Paycheck, Peter Tobin, Pseudo-Isidore, Thomas Chatterton, Dorothea Puente, Jacques van Meegeren, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Richard Allen Davis, Fritz Kreisler, William Henry Ireland, Iolo Morganwg, Neville Heath, Jack Abbott, Charles Bertram, William Roupell, Michel Roger Lafosse, Adolfo Kaminsky, Avraham Hirschson, Alexis Flores, Dean Faiello, Annio da Viterbo, William Dodd, Claude Eatherly, Henry Woodhouse, Lucio Urtubia, Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Scott Reuben, Brita Tott, Constantine Simonides, Michael John Hamdani, Benedict Levita, Izzy Lang, Alexander Howland Smith, Jean LaBanta, Scott Faughn, Michael Sabo, Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya, Denis Vrain-Lucas, William Wantling, Andrzej Kolikowski, Francesco Maria Pratilli, James Townsend Saward, Robert Spring, Clotilde de Surville, Piligrim, Joseph Cosey, Barakat Fahim Ali Mohamed, Charles Weisberg, Francois Nodot, Veitel-Heine Ephraim, Samuel Literati Nemes, Adolf Ludvig Stierneld, Alfredo Fioravanti, Przybys aw Dyjamentowski. Excerpt: James Addison Reavis (May 10, 1843 - November 27, 1914), later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster. He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also known as the Barony of Arizona, a pair of fraudulent land claims that if certified would have granted him ownership to over 18,600 square miles (48,200 km) of land in central Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory. During the course of the fraud, Reavis collected an estimated US$5,300,000 in cash and promissory notes through the sale of quitclaims and proposed investment plans. Under the terms of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalg...
