When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his...
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