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Men’s Journal, July 1995, with source attribution to Molecular Medicine, vol. 1, 1995: pp. 1-12, for the one-in-300-million-sperm statistic.
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Andronicos, Manolis. Vergina: The Royal Tombs and the Ancient City. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S.A., 1992. (This is Andronicos’s first-person account of his discovery of the tomb of King Philip II. It is the premier record of the finding of the tomb and its contents and my source for the description of the gold lar-nax and the tomb contents, as well as the cremation and burial of King Philip.)
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Untitled Westminster Abbey Library chart (for the female lineage of the Essex Ring).
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Greer, Curtis Manning. The Louisiana Purchase and the Westward Movement. Philadelphia: G. Barrie & Sons, 1904.
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Allen, John Logan. Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1975.
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Halsey, Ashley, Jr. “The Air Gun of Lewis & Clark,” American Rifleman, vol. 132, no. 8, August 1984.
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Moulton, Gary E. (ed.). The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804 (Vol. 2). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. (The first of an eleven-volume set that reproduces the journals and is an invaluable reference source on the expedition, with details on the writing of the journals, reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press, copyright 1986 by the University of Nebraska Press.)
“The Mystery of Meriwether Lewis” (Associated Press), Newsday, June 4, 1996.
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Peterson, Merrill (ed.). Thomas Jefferson: Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984. (Source of the Thomas Jefferson letter of June 20, 1803.)
Quaife, Milo M. The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant Ordway. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection microfilm, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri.
Yale University Library catalog cards, n.d.
Cross, Milton, and David Ewen. Milton Cross’ Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music (Vol. 1). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1953. (Source of the quote, “For me there can be no recreation in the society of my fellows …”)
Komroff, Manuel. Beethoven and the World of Music. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. (Source of the quotes, “To give you an idea of this curious condition …” and “whistle and buzz.”)
Orga, Ates. Beethoven: His Life and Times. New York: State Mutual, 1981.
Solomon, Maynard. Beethoven. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1977.
Swift, Frederic Kay, and Willard I. Musser. All About Music. Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Belwin, 1960.
Belden, Bauman L. Indian Peace Medals Issued in the United States. New York: American Numismatic Society, 1927. (Source of the Wayne quote, which itself is quoted from the American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. 1.)
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, no. 14, part 2. Washington, D.C., 1896.
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. The Indian Heritage of America. New York: Bantam, 1969.
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Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.
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McClinton, Kim. Collecting American 19th Century. New York: Scribners, 1968.
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Prucha, Francis Paul. Indian Peace Medals in American History. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.
Bligh, William. Mutiny Aboard H.M. Armed Transport “Bounty” in 1789. N.p.: Bowker and Bertram, 1978. (The source for the “wanted description of Alex: Smith.”)
Danielsson, Bengt. What Happened in the Bounty. London: Allen & Unwin, 1962.
Hough, Richard. Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutiny. New York: Dutton, 1973.
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Kennedy, Gavin. The Mutiny of the Bounty. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. (This book contains an abridged version of Sir John Barrow’s The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty : Its Causes and Consequences, London: John Murray, 1831. Barrow’s book, written anonymously, is probably the definitive account of the whole Bounty mutiny and is the source of my quotes in this chapter as reproduced in Gavin Kennedy’s book.)
McKee, Alexander. HMS Bounty . New York: Morrow, 1962.
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Chadwick, Henry, letter of March 20, 1908, to A. G. Mills. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.
“A Challenge,” Delhi Gazette, Hamden, New York, July 12, 1825.
Franco, Barbara. The Cardiff Giant: A Hundred Year Old Hoax. Cooperstown, N.Y.: New York State Historical Society, 1990.
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Heitz, Thomas R., and John Thorn. “Leatherstocking Base Ball Club—The 1845 New York Game Rules” (sheets), n.d., Knickerbocker Rule Book, 1845.
“Home of Baseball,” The Freeman’s Journal, March 26, 1908.
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Walsh, Jim. “‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ Still Champion,” Variety, n.d.
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