Historian Woody Register will give a talk and reading from his book, “The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club,” on Thursday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Register will also give a seminar on March 3 from 10 a.m. – noon on working with archives and how he uncovered this historic find.
Published by , “The Muckers” is a first-person account of a young 19th-century gang member in New York City. Register discovered the manuscript while conducting research in the Special Collections Research Center at ϲ Libraries. The original manuscript was written by William Osborne Dapping, who would go on to become a respected Central New York journalist, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of a 1929 prison riot for The Auburn, N.Y., Citizen-Advertiser.
Woody Register is chair of the Department of History and directs the American Studies Program at the University of the South (Sewanee), where he teaches post-Civil War U.S. history.
Additional information on “The Muckers” can be found in Register’s .
The lecture is open to the public; however, there is limited space available for the seminar. R.S.V.P. to jschambe@syr.edu.
