What She Told Her Family Before Dying (1953)
VIA; Federal Writers’ Project, WPA life histories, Library of Congress archives, 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Peshtigo Firestorm, 1890 census destruction, Orphan Trains, World’s Columbian Exposition 1893, White City, Tartaria theory, mudflood speculation all collide in one question: why do America’s biggest “transition era” records and witnesses keep getting boxed, burned, or erased right when they should be clearest?
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