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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tracy D. Wilson and I'm Holly Frying. Over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years the Holly and I have been

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Speaker 1: on this show, we have gotten literally hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 1: of requests from listeners, and maybe five percent of them

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Speaker 1: are requests that we get over and over and over

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Speaker 1: and over again, And unfortunately a handful of those most

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Speaker 1: requested episodes are also ones that we can't really do

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Speaker 1: a whole show on. Sometimes there's just not enough information

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Speaker 1: available about the thing. Sometimes the information exists somewhere, but

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Speaker 1: It's either uh, not in a language that we speak,

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Speaker 1: or it's so spread out among so many different things

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Speaker 1: really put into a show that puts out two new

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Speaker 1: episodes in a week. Or sometimes they're just there's information,

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Speaker 1: just doesn't feel that reliable. Occasionally we actually get emails

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Speaker 1: from people who kind of go, I want you to

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Speaker 1: do an episode on this. I know the information is

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Speaker 1: on it, and I'm just gonna go ahead and put

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Speaker 1: it out there. We cannot do a master's thesis level

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Speaker 1: We would be on like a Dan Carlin hardcore history

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Speaker 1: do today is to take six of these things that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna just run through them in one show. So

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Speaker 1: that is our six impossible episodes for today. So first up,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Mary Fields, who is also known

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Speaker 1: as Stagecoach Mary. And this is a person who a

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Speaker 1: a post on Badass of the Week, which, if you're

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Speaker 1: not familiar with that site, the language is a bit blue,

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Speaker 1: so maybe do not google it after this episode and

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Speaker 1: read it allowed to an elementary school class or other

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Speaker 1: small children, etcetera. Here's what we do know about Stagecoach Mary.

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Speaker 1: She was born a slave in Tennessee in eighteen thirty

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Speaker 1: She had one of the Dunn's daughters Dolly basically grew

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Speaker 1: she was still a slave. After slavery was abolished, she

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Speaker 1: moved to Toledo, Ohio with Dolly Dunn, who was going

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Speaker 1: Mother Amadeus, and she eventually moved to Cascade, Montana to

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Speaker 1: Mary stayed behind in Ohio, but when Mother Amadeus became

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Speaker 1: extremely ill, they sent for her. Mother Amadeus eventually got better,

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Speaker 1: and Mary stayed in Cascade. Did odd jobs around St.

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Speaker 1: Peter's Mission, and she basically acted as a protector for

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the film itself, but she talks about

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Speaker 1: the London beer flood. And you may remember the episode

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Speaker 1: in our archive about the Boston molasses flood, which was

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Speaker 1: back in the era of Katie and Sarah in nif

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Speaker 1: about the Boston molasses flood, except that episode on the

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Speaker 1: Boston Molasses flood is from back when the podcast was

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Speaker 1: And so for the London beer flood. On October seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: The inquest determined that this was an act of God

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Speaker 1: supposedly out of Edward Mordraake story, there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: a fiend it surely is. I beg and beseech you

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, she does sound awesome, sounds super awesome.

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Speaker 1: So I also have some listener mails to send. This

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Speaker 1: Iroquois Theater fire. Architect Louis Gonzil investigated the Iroquois Theater

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Speaker 1: the morning after the tragedy. Since he found it quote

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Speaker 1: impossible to obtain plans or specifications of the structure, he

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Speaker 1: measured the building, reconstructed the plans, and photographed various sections

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Speaker 1: of the theater. This took weeks and his inspection was exhaustive.

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Speaker 1: His findings were dated January twentieth, nineteen o four. Mr

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Speaker 1: Gonzelle attended the court proceedings following the disaster and quote

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Speaker 1: unparalleled negligence displayed in its supervision and operation. All of

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Speaker 1: the suits ended in verdicts not guilty. His paper was

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Speaker 1: clever and successful manipulation. He published his paper in ninety five,

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Speaker 1: and the Theater Historical Society of America republished it in

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Speaker 1: booklet form. In Anyone looking for details about how the

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Speaker 1: booklet or contact the Theater Historical Society. I think some

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