Handsome Frank
1853 – 1857
“There is nothing left to do but get drunk.”
Did you know?
Handsome Frank had some of the finest hair of any of the previous American Idols. One witness described it approvingly as a "mass of curly black hair combed on a deep slant over his wide forehead." Yet that mass of curls may have been an act of misdirection away from the truth of his wide forehead. In an 1862 photograph, taken in profile, his hair appears to exist on two levels "above, the hair combed on a deep slant, and below, a small patch at the front and center of his wide forehead. ⠀
Fun Fact:
Handsome Frank was known for his wide forehead.