From Dan Beach Bradley to Todd Lavelle
As a story, this account of Americans in Siam begins rather slowly. Missionaries who make very few converts. Traders who do very little trade. Diplomats with very little tact. In 1870s, the American consul sums up his countrymen in Siam as “mutinous sailors, rascally captains, quarrelling and libidinous missionaries”. The only American who leaves a real mark on Siam’s history in this era is the…