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Dec 2021

38m 16s

EP140: The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas...

About this episode

On this episode of Our American Stories, Jackson McQuigg of the Atlanta History Center tells the story of the principle pursuit locomotive of the Great Railroad Chase and Leslie Leyland Fields tells the story of how she came to write her memoir.

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00:00 - The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas"

23:00 - The Reluctant Memoirist

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