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A Tribute to
Chautauqua
1874 - Chautauqua, New York, United States
For about thirty years a brown tent went up on a well drained field outside town, and for a week the whole county came to hear a former pres...
A Tribute to
Dockery Farms
1895 - 1982 - Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
The sign on the seed house says Dockery Farms, Est. 1895. The Mississippi Blues Trail marker in front of it asks a question: Birthplace of t...
A Tribute to
The 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps
1896 - 1897 - Missoula, Montana, United States
Twenty Black soldiers rode bicycles from Montana to Missouri in 1897 to find out whether the Army should use bicycles. The Army decided it a...
A Tribute to
The 65th Infantry Regiment
March 2, 1899 - 1956 - San Juan, Puerto Rico
They were decorated, and then they were court-martialled, and the Army admitted almost fifty years later that the two things were connected....
A Tribute to
The Children's Blizzard of 1888
January 12, 1888 - Ord, Nebraska, United States
The morning was warm enough that some of them went to school without their coats. The cold air that became the storm formed around 8 Januar...
A Tribute to
The Chinese Workers of the Central Pacific
1864 - 1869 - Promontory Summit, Utah, United States
The Central Pacific kept no record of the deaths of any of its workers. That is not a gap in the archive. That is the archive. Between 1864...
The Story of
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1895 - 1917 - Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
The first American company to build gasoline automobiles broke up over a proposal to move to Detroit. Charles and Frank Duryea started in S...
A Tribute to
The Fisk Jubilee Singers
October 6, 1871 - Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nine students went on the road in 1871 to keep their school from closing. They came back having built it a building. Fisk opened on the nin...
A Tribute to
The Great Hinckley Fire
September 1, 1894 - Hinckley, Minnesota, United States
The loggers took the trunks and left the branches where they fell. Four years of drought later, the ground itself was kindling. Less than t...
A Tribute to
The Harvey Girls
1883 - Florence, Kansas, United States
Something like a hundred thousand young women worked as Harvey Girls. We went looking for their names. After two full passes through the Kan...
A Tribute to
The Homestake Mine
1876 - 2002 - Lead, South Dakota, United States
They dug a mile and a half down for gold. Then somebody filled a tank at the bottom with dry-cleaning fluid and started catching neutrinos f...
A Tribute to
The Johnstown Flood
May 31, 1889 - Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States
The club lowered the top of the dam by a couple of feet so that two carriages could pass each other on the road across it. The South Fork D...
A Tribute to
The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch
1893 - 1932 - Kay County, Oklahoma, United States
The 101 Ranch more or less invented the rodeo by accident, and the best hand on the place had to be billed as an Indian in order to compete....
A Tribute to
The Orphan Trains
1854 - 1929 - New York, New York, United States
Fewer than half of them were orphans. Nobody agrees how many children there were, either. Charles Loring Brace was a Connecticut minister w...
A Tribute to
The Pony Express
April 3, 1860 - October 26, 1861 - St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
The Pony Express ran for eighteen months, lost money on every letter it carried, and is remembered better than almost anything else in the A...
A Tribute to
The Sultana
1863 - April 27, 1865 - Memphis, Tennessee, United States
More people died on the Sultana than on the Titanic. Almost nobody has heard of her. Her legal capacity was three hundred and seventy-six p...
A Tribute to
The United States Camel Corps
1855 - 1866 - Quartzsite, Arizona, United States
In 1855 the United States Congress appropriated thirty thousand dollars to buy camels, and for about ten years the United States Army had a ...
The Story of
The Winton Motor Carriage Company
March 15, 1897 - February 11, 1924 - Cleveland, Ohio, United States
In 1903 a doctor bought a used car on a fifty-dollar bet and drove it from San Francisco to New York, because nobody had done it yet. Horat...

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