Dr. Maurice Hilleman’s Birthplace
Special thanks to: Art and Nancy Larson for kindly showing me around Miles City; Jeryl and Lorraine Hilleman, for sharing Dr. Hilleman’s story and autobiography with me; and Mayor Joe Whalen. Publications: Lawrence K. Altman, “Obituary: Maurice Hilleman, Vaccine Creator,” New York Times (April 13, 2005); John E. Calfee, “Medicine’s Miracle Man: Maurice Hilleman’s Remarkable Period of Industrial Scientific Research Yielded the Most Cost-Effective Medicines Ever Made,” The American, the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute (January 23, 2009); Huntly Collins, “The Man Who Saved Your Life—Maurice R. Hilleman,” Philadelphia Enquirer (August 30, 1999); “Maurice Hilleman, Pioneer of Preventive Medicine, Died on April 11th, Aged 85,” The Economist (April 21, 2005); Thomas H. Maugh II, “Maurice R. Hilleman, 85; Scientist Developed Many Vaccines That Saved Millions of Lives,” Los Angeles Times (April 13, 2005); Paul A. Offit, MD, Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (New York: HarperCollins, 2007); Christopher Reed, “Maurice Hilleman: Medical Scientist Whose Vaccines Saved Millions of Lives,” The Guardian (April 15, 2005); Caroline Richmond, “Maurice Hilleman: Inventor of More Than 40 Vaccines,” The Independent (April 20, 2005); Patricia Sullivan, “Maurice R. Hilleman Dies; Created Vaccines,” Washington Post (April 13, 2005); and “Maurice Hilleman: Trail-Blazing Biologist Whose Vaccines Saved Millions from Death—and Tens of Millions from Disease” The Times (April 19, 2005).
Dr. Loring Miner’s House
Special thanks to: Helen Hall and Jamie Wright at the Haskell Township Library for all their assistance; William McKale, director of the 1st Infantry Division Museum at Fort Riley; and Paul and Bill Miner, who kindly shared stories about their father with me. Publications: John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (New York: Viking Penguin, 2004); William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919); Ceci Connolly, “A Grisly but Essential Issue: Pandemic Plan Skims Over How to Deal with Many Corpses,” Washington Post (June 9, 2006); Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, New Edition, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Jack Fincher, “America’s Deadly Rendezvous with the ‘Spanish Lady,’ ” Smithsonian (January 1989); John F. Kelly, “1918, Washington’s Season of Death,” Washington Post (January 22, 2004); Christine M. Kreiser, “Influenza 1918: The Enemy Within,” American History (December 2006); Naval Historical Center, “A Winding Sheet and a Wooden Box,” Navy Medicine (vol. 77, no. 3, May/June 1986); Alice Park, “A Flu Strain Goes Kerflooey,” Time (March 23, 2009); PBS, “Influenza 1918,” American Experience (transcript); Gustav Person, “The Flu Strikes Belvoir: Camp A.A. Humphreys and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918,” On Point, published by the Army Historical Foundation (fall 2008); Steve Sternberg, “What a Pandemic Taught Us,” USA Today (April 22, 2010); and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918–1919,” http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/kansas.htm.
Brevig Mission
Special thanks to: Pastor Brian Crockett; Lisa Fallgren, my fellow passenger between Brevig Mission and Nome; Laura Samuelson, director of the Carrie M. McClain Memorial Museum, which is where I found the Levi Ashton letter; and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger. Publications: T. A. Badger, “Nome-Area Residents Recall Deadly 1918 Flu Epidemic,” Northland News (May 1993); David Brown, “On the Trail of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” Washington Post (February 27, 2001); R. S. Henry, The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology—Its First Century 1862–1962 (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1964); Christopher C. Kelly, “Breaking the Genetic Code; AFIP’s Taubenberger Unlocks Mystery to 1918 Spanish Flu: Findings Play Major Role in H5N1 Pandemic Preparations,” AFIP Newsletter (vol. 163, no. 3, fall 2005); Gina Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (New York: Touchstone, 1999; reissued, 2005); Elizabeth Pennisi, “First Genes Isolated from the Deadly 1918 Flu Virus,” Science (vol. 275, March 21, 1997); and Ned Rozell, “Permafrost Preserves Clues to Deadly 1918 Flu,” Alaska Science Forum (article #1386, April 29, 1998).
Henry Laurens’s Grave
Special thanks to: Thomas Ashe Lockhart for taking me to Mepkin Abbey to see Henry Laurens’s grave; and Clay Kilgore and Janet Wareham at the Washington County PA Historical Society. Publications: Brown University, “Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice” (February 2007); John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1992); Margaret C. McCullough, Fearless Advocate of the Right: The Life of Francis Julius LeMoyne, M.D., 1798–1879 (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1941); “Baron De Palm’s Request. His Remains to Be Cremated on Wednesday,” New York Times (December 4, 1876); “Another Body to Be Cremated: The Remains of Samuel D. Gross to Be Reduced to Ashes,” New York Times (May 8, 1884); Stephen Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); David Ramsay, ed., Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, Who Died in Charleston, S.C., on the 10th of June, 1811, in the 52d Year of Her Age with Extracts from Her Diary, Letters, and Other Private Papers (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1923); Fred Rosen, Cremation in America (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004); Lori Stiles, “Eugene Shoemaker Ashes Carried on Lunar Prospector,” University of Arizona News Services (January 6, 1998); Ethan Trex, “10 Bizarre Places for Cremation Ashes,” Mental Floss (August 2, 2010); and David Duncan Wallace, The Life of Henry Laurens (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915).
Daniel Boone’s Grave
Special thanks to: Steven Caudill, who took me to Boone’s gravesite in Frankfort, Kentucky, and shared with me a wealth of information about Boone’s life. Publications: Nancy Disher Baird, Luke Pryor Blackburn: Physician, Governor, Reformer (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979); Dan Barry, “Restoring Dignity to Sitting Bull, Wherever He Is,” New York Times (January 28, 2007); Leo A. Bressler, “Peter Porcupine and the Bones of Thomas Paine,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (vol. 82, no. 2, April 1858); Meredith Mason Brown, Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008); CBS News, “Jesse James Grave Mix-up: Misplaced Headstone Shifted over the Years” (transcript, June 30, 2000); David W. Chen, “Rehabilitating Thomas Paine, Bit by Bony Bit,” New York Times (March 30, 2001); Paul Collins, The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine (London: Bloomsbury, 2006); Lyman C. Draper, Ted Franklin Belue, ed., The Life of Daniel Boone (Mechanigsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998); John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Hero (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992); Harvey J. Kaye, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005); Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007); Edwin W. Murphy, After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses (New York: Citadel Press, 1995); “The Paine Monument at Last Finds a Home,” New York Times (October 15, 1905); Paul W. Prindle, “The 1752 Calendar Change,” American Genealogist (October 1964); George B. Wilson, “Genealogy and the Calendar,” Maryland Magazine of Genealogy (fall 1978); and Henry C. Young, “The Gregorian Calendar and Its Effect on Genealogical Research,” Niagra Frontier Genealogical Society Magazine (June 1944).
Thomas “Pete” Ray’s Grave
Special thanks to: Erin Duck and Cass Shirley at the Forest Hill Cemetery and, most of all, to Janet Ray, who shared with me her memories of her father and his military service. Publications: John Arnold, “Young Bay of Pigs Pilot Returns to Long-Delayed Funeral,” Miami Herald (December 6, 1979); Andrew Carroll, editor, Dwight D. Eisenhower letter excerpt from War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (New York: Scribner, 2001); Edward B. Ferrer, Operation Puma: The Air Battle of the Bay of Pigs (Miami: Internat
ional Aviation Consultations, Inc., Spanish ed., 1975; English ed., 1982); Howard Jones, The Bay of Pigs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Peter Kornblush, ed., Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (New York: New Press, 1998); Alejandro de Quesada, The Bay of Pigs: Cuba 1961 (New York: Osprey Publishing, 2009); Warren Trest and Donald Dodd, Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard’s Role at the Bay of Pigs (Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books, 2001); and David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, “The Strange Case of the CIA Widows,” Look (June 30, 1964).
Hart Island
Special thanks to: Beverly Fields in the Washington, D.C., Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; Michael J. Desmond, a family service counselor at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, who took me on a tour of the cemetery, which I had originally visited to find the forgotten grave of Thomas Holmes (in 1861, Holmes popularized embalming in America); and Melinda Hunt, who is the author, with Joel Sternfeld, of the book Hart Island (Zurich, Berlin, New York: Scalo, 1998) and could not have been more generous with her time in taking me out to the island and educating me about its history. Publications: Percy H. Epler, The Life of Clara Barton (New York: Macmillan, 1915); Stephen B. Oates, A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1994); and John F. Walter, The Confederate Dead in Brooklyn (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2003).
Leary’s Book Store
Special thanks to: Lee Arnold at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, who located where Leary’s had once been and provided me with an abundance of information about other Philadelphia landmarks; Carole Herrick, who helped me find where Stephen Pleasonton hid the Declaration of Independence and other valuable documents near the Chain Bridge in Washington, D.C; Miriam Kleiman, the public affairs specialist at the U.S. National Archives; and Courtenay Singer, manager of the Global Health Initiative at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. Publications: Eleanor Blau, “Declaration of Independence Sells for $2.4 Million,” New York Times (June 14, 1991); Julian P. Boyd, “The Declaration of Independence: The Mystery of the Lost Original,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (October 1976); Julian P. Boyd and Gerard W. Gawalt, eds., The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text, rev. ed. (Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999); Marc Eepson, Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built (New York: Free Press, 2001); Dorothy S. Gelatt, “$8.14 Million Dunlap Declaration Has Checkered Past,” Maine Antique Digest (August 2000); George W. Givens, 500 Little-Known Facts in U.S. History: The More We Know About the Past, the Better We Understand the Present (Springville, Ut.: Bonneville Books, 2006); Frederick R. Goff, The John Dunlap Broadside: The First Printing of the Declaration of Independence (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1976); Milton Gustafson, “Travels of the Charters of Freedom,” Prologue Magazine (vol. 34, no. 4, winter 2002); Richard Luscombe and Daniel Nasaw, “Houston, We Have a Problem: Original Moon Walk Footage Erased,” The Guardian (July 16, 2009); Pauline Maier, American Scripture Making the Declaration of Independence (New York: Knopf, 1997); John McPhee, “Travels of the Rock,” The New Yorker (February 26, 1990); Milestone Documents in the National Archives, The Declaration of Independence (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1776); National Archives and Records Administration, “The Declaration of Independence: A History,” http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_history.html (December 4, 2010); Wilfred J. Ritz, “From the Here of Jefferson’s Handwritten Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence to the There of the Printed Dunlap Broadside,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (October 1992); Russell Frank Weigley et. al., Philadelphia: A 300-Year History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982); Linda Wheeler, “Founding Documents Will Get New Cases,” Washington Post (March 18, 1999); and Ted Widmer, “Looking for Liberty,” New York Times (July 4, 2008).
The Menger Hotel and Adina De Zavala’s Residence
Special thanks to: Paul Carter, who helped me find where De Zavala once lived; Ernesto Malacara for guiding me around the Menger Hotel; Carol Roark in the special collections department of the Dallas Public Library; Margaret Schlankey at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (University of Texas at Austin); Ryan Schumacher at the Texas State Historical Association; and Richard Bruce Winders at the Alamo. Publications: Elaine Ayala, “Preservationist Adina De Zavala Getting Her Due as Historical Figure,” San Antonio Express-News (November 28, 2006); Paul Bourgeois, “Dallas Library Displays Rare National Document,” Dallas Star-Telegram (July 6, 2001); Van Craddock, “Texans Didn’t Like Santa Anna, by Gum,” Longview News-Journal (June 20, 2010); Ann Fears Crawford and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas: Their Lives, Their Experiences, Their Accomplishments (Austin: State House Press, 1992); James E. Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); Ruth Eyre, “City to Get Declaration of Independence Copy,” Dallas Times Herald (July 2, 1978); Lewis F. Fisher, Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1996); Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007); Kim Horner, “The Pursuit of History: Dallas Boasts Display of Rare Declaration Copy,” Dallas Morning News (July 4, 2000); Frank W. Jennings with Rosemary Williams, “Adina De Zavala: Alamo Crusader,” Texas Highways Magazine (March 1995); Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (New York: Free Press, 2001); “San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site,” Texas Parks & Wildlife (www.tpwd.state.tx.us); Timothy J. Todish, Terry Todish, and Ted Spring, Alamo Sourcebook, 1836: A Comprehensive Guide to the Battle of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998); Docia Schultz Williams, The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel with Special Recollections of Ernesto Malacara (Dallas: Republic of Texas Press, 2000); and Dorman H. Winfrey, Texas Historical Association, “The Texan Archive War of 1842,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (October 1960).
Mount Baker
Special thanks to: Ed Hrivnak and Mike Vrosh for spending an entire weekend with me in order to hike up Mount Baker and show me the PV-1 crash site; and Tom Philo, a military historian who helped me determine the number of service members who died in the States during World War II. Publications: James Barron, “Flaming Horror on the 79th Floor; 50 Years Ago Today, in the Fog, a Plane Hit the World’s Tallest Building,” New York Times (July 28, 1995); Bureau of Naval Personnel and US Marine Corps Headquarters, “US Navy Personnel in World War II: Service and Casualty Statistics,” Annual Report, Navy and Marine Corps Military Personnel Statistics (June 30, 1964); Jonathan Goldman, The Empire State Book (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980); Anthony J. Mireles, Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States 1941–1945 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2010); TSgt. Linda L. Mitchell, “McChord Personnel Recover Navy Anti-Submarine Aircraft Wreckage,” Northwest Airlifter (October 14, 1994); Leo Mullen, “World War II Tragedy on Mount Baker: Lost Crew Returns from Clouds,” Bellingham Herald (September 3, 1995); and United States Forest Service, “A Brief History of Mt. Baker,” http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mbs/home.
Home
Special thanks to: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak and her sister Stacy Neuberger, my two wonderful guides in Washington, D.C. (and much of the information I acquired about Philip Reed—also spelled Reid—came from an early draft of Megan’s sensational book, Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing: Adventures in Discovering News—Making Connections—Unexpected Ancestors—Long-Hidden Secrets—and Solving Historical Puzzles); Gene and Patricia Godley, who first told me the story behind the Statue of Freedom; my neighbor Joe Rogers; Mark Indre and Kathleen Matthews at Marriott; Kenneth Despertt, a librarian in the “Washingtoniana” department of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; and Cecelia Logan and Ayeta Heatley at National Harmony National Park. Publications: Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (New York: Simon & S
chuster, 2009); Jon Elliston, “Spy Like Us?: Felix Bloch, One of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of Cold War Espionage, Is Back in the Headlines—and Still Driving a Bus in Chapel Hill,” Indy Week (March 7, 2001); Sam Roberts, “First Through Gates of Ellis I., She Was Lost. Now She’s Found,” New York Times (September 14, 2006); Rachel L. Swarns and Jodi Kantor, “First Lady’s Roots Reveal Slavery’s Tangled Legacy,” New York Times (October 8, 2009); Dr. Eugene Walton, “Philip Reid: Slave Caster of Freedom,” The Examiner (March 1, 2005); and David Wise, “The Felix Bloch Affair,” New York Times Magazine (May 13, 1990).
Along with the stories profiled in this book, there are several others that, for one reason or another, could not be included. But I’m extremely grateful to the people who shared them with me either during or after my main cross-country journey, and they deserve recognition:
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