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Other / Unknown · Africa · 1920s

10 documents · 1 independent account

10 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.

The route

Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.

Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.

9 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- The Hays free press & Eagle River review: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place; same year
- The Hays free press & The Progress-itemizer: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place; same year
- Eagle River review & The Progress-itemizer: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place; same year
- Eagle River review & The Concordia sentinel: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- Eagle River review: one document describes it twice

Account 1 10 documents
- Earliest found The Laramie Republican (Laramie, Wyo.) 18??-1923 Newspaper · Mar 5, 1920
- Reprint Dakota County Herald (Dakota City, Neb.) Newspaper · Jul 29, 1920
- Reprint The Raymer Enterprise (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19?? Newspaper · Jul 29, 1920
- Reprint Eagle River Review (Eagle River, Wis.) Newspaper · Jul 30, 1920
  Image 6 of Eagle River review (Eagle River, Wis.), July 30, 1920
- Reprint The Progress-Itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.) Newspaper · Jul 30, 1920
  Image 6 of The Progress-itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), July 30, 1920
- Reprint The Concordia Sentinel (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) Newspaper · Jul 31, 1920
  Image 8 of The Concordia sentinel (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.), July 31, 1920
- Reprint The Red Cloud Chief (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) Newspaper · Aug 5, 1920
- Reprint The Hays Free Press (Hays, Kan.) Newspaper · Aug 5, 1920
  Image 3 of The Hays free press (Hays, Kan.), August 5, 1920
- Reprint The Mellette County Pioneer (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971 Newspaper · Aug 6, 1920
- Reprint The St. Charles Herald (Hahnville, La.) Newspaper · Aug 28, 1920

Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.

Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.

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Other / Unknown · Eagle River, Wisconsin · 1920
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