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In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping's life in a gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform literature and a rejoinder to the era's alarming exposEs of the "dangerous classes," The Muckers stands as an important reform era primary document.

The thinly disguised...

In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping s life in a gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform literature and a rejoinder to the era s alarming exposes of the "dangerous classes," The Muckers stands as an important reform era primary document.

The thinly disguised...