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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 08-07-2019 12:39 PM
Samuel Sidney McClure?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-07-2019 02:56 PM
Sorry Roger. It's not McClure.
Next clue. Tarbell met him in the 1880s.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 08-07-2019 03:08 PM
Theodore L. Flood?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-07-2019 04:56 PM
Flood is a logical guess, Steve, but it isn't him.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - AussieMick - 08-07-2019 05:26 PM
Walt Whitman? (there are only so many straws in the world ... sooner or later if I'll grab at the correct one)
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-07-2019 05:43 PM
Actually Mike, Whitman is a clever guess (wrong, but clever). I've never seen any evidence that Tarbell met Whitman before.
I'll give another clue. Tarbell met this person in relation to the Chautauqua.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 08-07-2019 06:53 PM
Arthur E. Bestor Sr.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - AussieMick - 08-07-2019 08:14 PM
John Heyl Vincent ? (I admit that I'd never heard of him before until I did a Google search on Chautauqua. And the first result of that search was an Australian racehorse by the name of Chautauqua ... due to Google making a connection with my location)
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-07-2019 08:18 PM
Bestor is a great guess, Steve, but it isn't him.
One of the reasons that this person and Tarbell got along so well was because of his view of women in the historical field. In a speech, he once said "[It's the] province of woman to vitalize history by clothing the dry bones of dead facts, of dry text books with flesh and color. Thus will history become a living thing, as fresh and beautiful as Venus springing from the foam of the sea."
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Rob
Mike, just saw your guess after I posted. Vincent isn't the answer, but he and Tarbell were definitely friends.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 08-07-2019 10:04 PM
I don't have much confidence in this guess, but the allusion to Ezekiel 37 in the quote above kind of makes me wonder it's not William E. Barton.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-07-2019 10:36 PM
Even though your guess is incorrect, I have to give you an A for effort, Steve. Tarbell didn't actually begin corresponding with Barton until 1919 when Barton sent her a letter (to which Tarbell didn't respond until 1923, and we get mad if a text isn't replied to within an hour!). And while they were civil to one another in their correspondence, there was a deep rivalry between them otherwise.
Great example of logical thinking, though!
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 08-07-2019 11:48 PM
Charles D. Hazen?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-08-2019 08:42 AM
Given that Hazen was one of Tarbell's closest friends in Paris, that's a great guess Steve, but not correct.
I imagine this will give it away, but he is considered to be the father of modern American historical studies.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - L Verge - 08-08-2019 09:26 AM
Not sure if this one was ever a reporter, but Bishop Stubbs?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-08-2019 11:22 AM
Good guess, Laurie, but it isn't Stubbs. This person is an American.
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Rob
ETA: It isn't George Bancroft, either.