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Every episode leaves something on the research desk. The details that didn't quite fit. The rabbit holes that led somewhere unexpected. The questions the records wouldn't answer.
Today we're opening the files.
In this episode, we go back to three stories from Season 2, the ones I couldn't stop thinking about long after the microphone was off. A Nebraska son hired to evaluate the Carnegie library program, who told an uncomfortable truth and watched his report disappear. A sacred building in Deadwood's Chinatown that burned under suspicious circumstances, and the case that was never closed. And two researchers documenting the same Indigenous plant knowledge at the same time, through completely different methods, producing completely different records.
Three episodes. Three things I couldn't let go of.
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- Erickson, David L. "Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Incipient Cultural Ecologist: A Biographic Analysis." Master's thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1971. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/opentheses/60/
- Fosha, Rose Estep, and Christopher Leatherman. "The Chinese Experience in Deadwood, South Dakota." Historical Archaeology 42, no. 3 (2008): 97–110.
- Latham, Joyce M. "Clergy of the Mind: Alvin S. Johnson, William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporations, and the American Library Association." The Library Quarterly 80, no. 3 (July 2010): 249–265.
- Pollak, Oliver B. A State of Readers: Nebraska's Carnegie Libraries. Lincoln, NE: J & L Lee Co., 2005, pp. 165–172.
- Waheenee, Edward Goodbird, and Gilbert Livingstone Wilson. Buffalo Bird Woman’s garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
- Wong, Edith C., Eileen French, and Rose Estep Fosha. "Deadwood's Pioneer Merchant: Wong Fee Lee and His Wing Tsue Bazaar." South Dakota History 39, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 283–335.
