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Tough Tarbell Trivia
08-07-2019, 01:39 PM,
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Samuel Sidney McClure?
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08-07-2019, 03:56 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Roger. It's not McClure.

Next clue. Tarbell met him in the 1880s.

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08-07-2019, 04:08 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Theodore L. Flood?
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08-07-2019, 05:56 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Flood is a logical guess, Steve, but it isn't him.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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08-07-2019, 06:26 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Walt Whitman? (there are only so many straws in the world ... sooner or later if I'll grab at the correct one)
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08-07-2019, 06:43 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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08-07-2019, 07:53 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Arthur E. Bestor Sr.
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08-07-2019, 09:14 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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)
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08-07-2019, 09:18 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-07-2019, 09:19 PM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Mike, just saw your guess after I posted. Vincent isn't the answer, but he and Tarbell were definitely friends.
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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--Carl Sandburg
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08-07-2019, 11:04 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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.
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08-07-2019, 11:36 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-07-2019, 11:36 PM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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--Carl Sandburg
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08-08-2019, 12:48 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Charles D. Hazen?
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08-08-2019, 09:42 AM,
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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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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-08-2019, 10:26 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Not sure if this one was ever a reporter, but Bishop Stubbs?
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08-08-2019, 12:22 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-08-2019, 12:35 PM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Good guess, Laurie, but it isn't Stubbs. This person is an American.

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ETA: It isn't George Bancroft, either.
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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--Carl Sandburg
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