Nickell, Joe, <br/><br/>
Ambrose Bierce is missing  and other historical mysteries / 
Joe Nickell. 
 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1992. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : history and the investigative approach --  Ancient riddles : the mystery of the Nazca lines --  Biographical enigmas : Ambrose Bierce is missing --  Hidden identity : unmasking a Nazi monster --  Fakelore : Swift's lost silver mine --  Questioned artifacts : D. Boone riddles --  Suspect documents : Lincoln's Bixby letter --  Lost texts : Cooke's "missing" edition --  Obscured sources : Hawthorne's "Veiled lady" --  Scientific challenges : pseudoscience and the Shroud --  Afterword : some lessons learned. 
<br/><br/> What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another -- 
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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813164144 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Curiosities and wonders.<br/>History--Miscellanea.<br/>Political activists--Biography.<br/>World history.<br/>History--Miscellanea.<br/>Curiosities and wonders.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Curiosities  and  wonders History  Miscellanea 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D21  / .A437 1992