TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nickell,Joe
TI  - Ambrose Bierce is missing: and other historical mysteries 
SN  - 9780813164144
AV  - D21 .A437 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Curiosities and wonders
KW  - History
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Biography
KW  - World history
KW  - Curiosities
KW  - and
KW  - wonders
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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