Frank M Hopkins

Frank Hopkins

Frank Hopkins (1865 1951) was an American professional horseman who at one time performed with the Ringling Brothers Circus. He was known as a legendary ...

The Opportunity

Federal Government Corruption? Cabinet nominees not completing disclosure forms before a Republican controlled Congress wants to confirm them. Republicans try but failed to reduce the power of the Office of Congressional Ethics. A President who does not release his income tax return and believes th...

Unplanned Choices

What Will Happen if Abortion is Outlawed? No one under fifty will know or can remember. Women who lived before the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973 feared an unwanted pregnancy and suffered injury or death from a botched illegal abortion. Unplanned Choices tells the story of what happened to one couple...

First Time

The Delaware Press Association has awarded First Time second place for a short story collection written by a single author in their 2017 Communications Contest. First Time is a collection of ten short stories by Frank E Hopkins. While each story has separate characters they are linked by the theme t...

Hidalgo and Other Stories

It started as a search for heroes. It became a hunt for the most elusive equestrian charlatan of all time. If Frank Hopkins is to be believed, he led one of the most exciting, challenging and colorful (albeit unrecorded) lives in the late nineteenth century. No one rode more miles, eluded more dange...

Ireland 366: A Story a Day From Ireland' Hidden History

In this entertaining and engaging book, Frank Hopkins delivers an episode from Ireland's history for every single day of the year, including 29 February. Some are surprising, some sensational and others sad, but they are always fascinating. Featuring pieces from as early as the thirteenth century an...

Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors

Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's `sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising ...

Hidden Dublin: Deadbeats, Dossers and Decent Skins

Criminal incidents, accidents, whippings, beatings, jail escapes and hangings were all part of Dublin's `brilliant parade' in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, including actors, clergymen, scientists, politicians and rogues and rascals of every hue. Hopkins describes the poverty, soup kitchens,...

Searching for the Real Frank T. Hopkins (Horses from History) (Volume 2)

When the movie, Hidalgo, was released in 2004, Frank T. Hopkins became a controversial person. Extensive research has uncovered verifiable facts and identified material he had actually dictated to his wife, Gertrude. The result is a biography based on this information. It includes reprints of all of...

Locational Analysis: An Interregional Econometric Model of Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing, and Services