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CONTENTS Introduction xi 1. Why History? 1 2. Stepping Back in Time, Almost 11 3. Challenging History 23 4. The Everest of Museums 39 5. Conquering the High Wheeler 49 6. Does This Make Cotton or Gin? 61 7. Mary, Not Betsy 73 8. That Strange Creature the Mule 89 9. When Houses Talk 103 10. Water Battle on the Missouri 117 11. You Can’t Write My History 129 12. A Grizzly in the Mail 143 13. Tracking the Buffalo 159 14. The Cathedral and the Cemetery 173 15. We’re Flying over Hell Stretch? 185 16. How Lucky Was Lindy? 199 17. Passionate Pretenders 213 Epilogue 227 Acknowledgments 231 Notes 235 ...

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