Mound City
Special thanks to: Jerry O. Potter, who guided me around Arkansas and Tennessee and is the author of The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1992). Publications: Mary Koik, Civil War Trust, “Deadly Duty in the Arsenals,” Hallowed Ground Magazine (winter 2009); Denise Gess and William Lutz, Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002); and Leslie Miller, “Pilot Error Blamed for Flight 587 Crash,” Associated Press (October 26, 2004).
Richard “Two Gun” Hart’s House
Special thanks to: Enrique and Lucille Castillo for help with information on César Chávez’s birthplace; Harry Hart for his hospitality; Kelly King, who owns Richard Hart’s house in Homer, Nebraska; and Jane Shadle, who put me in touch with Marjorie Teetor Meyer (and I’m especially grateful to Marjorie for sharing her father’s story with me). Publications: William H. Armstrong, Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1978); Laurence Bergreen, Capone: The Man and Era (New York: Touchstone, 1994); Richard Griswold Del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995); Harry H. Hart, Jeff G. Hart, Angela S. Beekman, and Corey R. Hart, Capone-Hart: Two Italian Brothers: Two-Gun Hart, Lawman—Al Capone, Gangster (Lincoln, Nebr.: The “Two-Gun Project” and JC & H Productions, 2000); John Kobler, Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone (New York: Da Capo Press, 1971); Jacques E. Levy, César Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975); and Robert J. Schoenberg, Mr. Capone: The Real—and Complete—Story of Al Capone (New York: Quill, 1992).
Fort Meade
Special thanks to: Bob Johnson at the Fort George G. Meade Museum and Albert Nason at the Jimmy Carter Library. Publications: Bill Blass, Bare Blass (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003); CNN, “Carter: CIA Used Psychic to Help Find Missing Plane” (transcript, September 21, 1995); Jack Kneece, Ghost Army of World War II (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 2001); Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2000); David Morehouse, Psychic Warrior: The True Story of America’s Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-up of the CIA’s Top-Secret Stargate Program (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996); Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997); and Douglas Waller, “The Vision Thing,” Time (December 11, 1995).
Mary Dyer’s Farm
Special thanks to: Leigh Ivey and Betsy Merritt at the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Cory D. Nelson, President of the Western Psychiatric State Hospital Association, which includes the Human Resources Center in Yankton, South Dakota; Ruth S. Taylor, Loraine Byrne, and Bert Lippincott at the Newport Historical Society; Pat Redfearn at the George Hail Free Library in Warren, Rhode Island; C. Morgan Grefe at the Rhode Island Historical Society; and Kathy MacKnight at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Newport. Publications: Robert S. Burgess, To Try the Bloody Law: The Story of Mary Dyer (Burnsville, N.C.: Celo Valley Books, 2000); Michael Farquhar, A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans (New York: Penguin Books, 2008); John Williams Haley, “The Old Stone Bank” History of Rhode Island, Volume III (Providence: Providence Institution for Savings, 1939); Ruth Talbot Plimpton, Mary Dyer: Biography of a Rebel Quaker (Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1994); and Horatio Rogers, Mary Dyer of Rhode Island: The Quaker Martyr That Was Hanged on Boston Common, June 1, 1660 (Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1896).
The Paisley Five Mile Point Caves
Special thanks to: Dennis Jenkins and his team for letting me join them on their dig; Michelle Huey, owner of the Sage Rooms motel; and K. Kris Hirst, editor of The Archaeologist’s Book of Quotations (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press, 2010). Publications: J. M. Adovasio, J. Donahue, and R. Stuckenrath, “The Meadowcraft Rockshelter Radiocarbon Chronology 1975–1990,” American Antiquity, published by the Society for American Archaeology (vol. 55, no. 2, April 1990); Paul Aron, Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey Through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997); Jeff Benedict, No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America’s Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters (New York: Perennial, 2003); Andrew Curry, “How Did People Reach the Americas? Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Prehistoric Humans Who Colonized a Hemisphere,” U.S. News & World Report (August 4, 2008); Franklin Folsom, Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend of George McJunkin (Lanham, Md.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1992); Evan Hadingham, “America’s First Immigrants,” Smithsonian (November 2004); Marc Kaufman, “Human Traces Found to Be Oldest in N. America,” Washington Post (April 4, 2008); Michael D. Lemonick and Andrea Dorfman, “Who Were the First Americans?,” Time (March 13, 2006); Julian Smith, “Proof of a Pre-Clovis People?,” American Archaeology (winter 2009–2010); and John Noble Whitford, “New Answers to an Old Question: Who Got Here First?,” New York Times (November 9, 1999).
The Remains of Prometheus
Special thanks to: Betsy Duncan-Clark at Great Basin National Park; my terrific guide Bryan Petrtyl; and Terry Marasco at the Silver Jack Inn. Publications: Peter Browning, John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations (Lafayette, Calif.: Great West Books, 1988); Michael P. Cohen, A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998); Donald R. Currey, “An Ancient Bristlecone Pine Stand in Eastern Nevada,” Ecology (vol. 46, no. 4); Carl T. Hall, “Staying Alive: High in California’s White Mountains Grows the Oldest Living Creature Ever Found,” San Francisco Chronicle (August 23, 1998); Ronald M. Lanner, The Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World’s Oldest Trees (Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2007); National Park Service, “Ancient Trees: Great Basin Bristlecone Pines” (undated fact sheet); Michael L. Nicklas, Great Basin: The Story Behind the Scenery (Las Vegas: KC Publications, 1996); and Richard Preston, “Tall for Its Age: Climbing a Record-Breaking Redwood,” The New Yorker (October 9, 2006).
Mound Key Island
Special thanks to: Susanne Hunt at Florida’s Historic Preservation/Division of Historical Resources; Bobby Romero, who took me to Mound Key Island on his boat; and Robert Charles Brooks and Michael M. Heare at the Koreshan State Historic Site. Publications: Daniel B. Baker, ed., Explorers and Discoverers of the World (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1993); Marjory Stoneman Douglas with John Rothchild, Voice of the River: An Autobiography (Englewood, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 1987); B.F. French (editor), Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida, 2d ser.: Memoir of Hernando d’Escalante Fontanedo [sic] on the country and ancient Indian tribes of Florida. Translated from Ternaux Compan’s French translation from the original memoir in Spanish (New York: A. Mason, 1875); Robin Hanbury-Tenison, ed., The Seventy Great Journeys in History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006); Tony Horwitz, “The Real First Pilgrims,” American History (August 2008); Shelley Sperry, “A World Transformed,” map supplement to National Geographic (May 2007); and David O. True (editor), Memoir of Do. D’Escalante Fontaneda Respecting Florida, Written in Spain, about the year 1575, Translated from the Spanish with Notes by Buckingham Smith: 1854 (Coral Gables, Florida: Glade House, 1945).
The Grand Prairie Harmonical Association
Special thanks to: Peggy Ford at the Greeley History Museum; Kay E. Lowell at the University of Colorado’s James A. Michener Library; and Terri Wargo (the library director at the West Lebanon–Pike Township Public Library, as well as the president of the Warren County Historical Society), who did an enormous amount of research on Grand Prairie for me and guided me to its former site. Publications: Kamal Abdel-Malek, America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000); Daniel Brogan, “Al Qaeda’s Greeley Roots,” 5280 Magazine (June/July 2003); Thomas A. Clifton, Past and Present of Fountain and Warren Counties Indiana (Indianapolis
: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1913); Coy F. Cross II, Go West Young Man!: Horace Greeley’s Vision for America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995); Harry Evans, “Grand Prairie Harmonical Institute [sic],” Indiana Magazine of History (vol. XII, March 1916); Gerald and Patricia Gutek, Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998); Mark Holloway, Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 2nd ed. (New York: Dover Publications, 1966); Edward R. Horgan, The Shaker Holy Land: A Community Portrait (Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1987); Arthur Melville Pearson, “Utopia Derailed: How the 1894 Pullman Strike Ended One Magnate’s Vision of a Working-Class Paradise,” Archaeology (January/February 2009); Mike Peters, “Roots of Terrorism,” Greeley Tribune (February 24, 2002); Martha Smallwood, “Warren County’s Socialist Experiment on Prairie Township Farm,” Williamsport Pioneer (March 9, 1950); Jyotsna Sreenivasan, Utopias in American History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008); David Von Drehle, “A Lesson in Hate,” Smithsonian (February 2006); Richard Frothingham, Life and Times of Joseph Warren (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1865); and Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Knopf, 2006).
Pikes Peak’s Summit
Special thanks to: Leah Witherow at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Publications: Richard E. Bohlander, ed., World Explorers and Discovers (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992); Eugene W. Hollon, The Lost Pathfinder: Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949); Milbry Polk and Mary Tiegreen, Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World (New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2001); Frances Rooney, Extraordinary Women Explorers (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2005); Lynn Sherr, America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation’s Favorite Song (New York: Public Affairs, 2001); Gayle C. Shirley, More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women (Guildford, Conn., and Helena, Mont.: Globe Pequot Press, 2002); Agnes Wright Spring, ed., A Bloomer Girl on Pike’s Peak—1858, Julia Archibald Holmes: First White Woman to Climb Pike’s Peak (Denver: Denver Public Library, 1949); Rebecca Stefoff, Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); and Claude Wiatrowski, All Aboard for America’s Mountain: The Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railway (Manitou Springs, Colo.: Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railway Company, 2007).
Madison Grant’s Residence
Special thanks to: Eric Robinson at the New-York Historical Society for finding the New York Times obituary about Madison Grant. Publications: Joel K. Bourne Jr., “Redwoods: The Super Trees,” National Geographic (October 2009); Frederick Russell Burnham tribute from the Library of Congress, Kermit Roosevelt papers, “Boone & Crocket Club 35-38” folder, container 106; Wayne Gard, The Great Buffalo Hunt (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959); Martin S. Garretson, The American Bison: The Story of Its Extermination as a Wild Species and Its Restoration Under Federal Protection (New York: New York Zoological Society, 1938); Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Michael Punke, Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2007); and Philip Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003).
The Sonoma Developmental Center
Special thanks to: Karen Litzenberg at the Sonoma Developmental Center, who couldn’t have been more helpful, especially in light of the sensitive nature of this topic. Publications: Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003); Harry Bruinius, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity (New York: Knopf, 2006); Peter Irons, “Forced Sterilization: A Stain on California,” Los Angeles Times (February 16, 2003); Wendy Kline, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Mark A. Largent, Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008); Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); Nuremberg-related documents are from the Harvard Law School Library’s “Nuremberg Trials Project—A Digital Document Collection,” http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu; Andrea Pitzer, “Terrible Legacy of U.S. Eugenics,” USA Today (June 24, 2009); Peter Quinn, “Race Cleansing in America,” American Heritage (February/March 2003); Jonathan Peter Spiro, Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant (Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009); Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Aaron Zitner, “Sterilization in California,” Los Angeles Times (March 16, 2003); and https://supreme.justia.com, for a full transcript of all the Justices’ opinions in Buck v. Bell.
Haun’s Mill
Special thanks to: Karen Sadler and Benjamin Pykles at the Church of Latter-day Saints. Publications: A copy of Governor Christopher “Kit” Bond’s statement on June 25, 1976, rescinding Governor Lilburn Boggs’s October 1838 Executive Order #44, can be accessed online from the Missouri State Archives (Missouri Mormon War collection) at http://www.sos.mo.gov; Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1962); Paul Hodson, Never Forsake: The Story of Amanda Barnes Smith—Legacy of the Haun’s Mill Massacre (Salt Lake City: Keeban Productions, 1996); Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (New York: Doubleday, 2003); Stephen C. LeSeuer, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990); and Beth Shumway Moore, Bones in the Well: The Haun’s Mill Massacre, 1838 (Norman, Okla.: Arthur Clark Company, 2006); and Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith, The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1836–1844, Volume 2 (Independence, Missouri: Herald House, 1897).
Union Pacific Mine #6
Special thanks to: Bob Nelson, my trusty guide in Rock Springs. Publications: Henry Chadey, The Chinese Story and Rock Springs, Wyoming (Green River, Wyo.: Sweetwater County Museum, 1984); Cathy Newman, “Together Forever: Chang and Eng Gave the World ‘Siamese Twins’—and Brought a Small Town an Enduring Legacy,” National Geographic (June 2006); Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (New York: Random House, 2007); Craig Storti, Incident at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Massacre (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991); Russel L. Tanner and Margie Fletcher Shanks, Images of America: Rock Springs (Mount Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2008); Amy and Irving Wallace, The Two: The Story of the Original Siamese Twins (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978); and Ralph Zwicky testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, report no. 2044, “Providing Indemnity to Certain Chinese Subjects” (May 1, 1886).
Dowagiac Train Station
Special thanks to: Kay Gray and Mike Shamalla at the Dowagiac District Library; Muriel Anderson and Amanda Wahlmeier at the National Orphan Train Complex; and Vickie Phillipson, who works for the Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce. Publications: Mary Bigger, “Alice Bullis Ayler Story,” http://www.orphantraindepot.org/AliceAylerStory.html; John Eby, “Orphan Train Mystery Solved?,” Dowagiac Daily News (March 9, 2007); Marilyn Irvin Holt, The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992); and Stephen O’Connor, Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
Paris-Cope Service Station
Special thanks to: Tom Eberle, deputy clerk at the Oklahoma Supreme Court; Andy Hollinger and Geoff Megargee at the United States Holocaust Memorial; Debra
Spindle at the Oklahoma Historical Society; Patricia Presley and Kathy Stanley at the Oklahoma County Court; and Janice Thompson at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Publications: Gary Hartman, Roy M. Mersky, and Cindy L. Tate, Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Checkmark Books, 2007); David Cay Johnston, “William Pierce, 69, Neo-Nazi Leader, Dies,” New York Times (July 24, 2002); Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Tragedy at Oklahoma City (New York: HarperCollins, 2001); Victoria F. Nourse, In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008); and https://supreme.justia.com, for a full transcript of all the Justices’ opinions in Skinner v. Oklahoma.
Slip Hill Grade School
All of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions cited in the following chapters can also be found at: https://supreme.justia.com. Special thanks to: Marie Barnett for sharing her story with me; Debra Basham at the West Virginia State Archive; and Midge Justice at the Kanawha County Records Office in West Virginia. Publications: American Civil Liberties Union, The Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses (New York, 1941); Richard J. Ellis, To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005); Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick, The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions That Shaped America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999); Shawn Francis Peters, Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000); and Robert H. Jackson Center and the Supreme Court Historical Society, “Recollections of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette,” St. John’s Law Review (September 24, 2007).
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