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The Sunday Read: ‘What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero’

The Sunday Read: ‘What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero’

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Sometime in the 1850s or ’60s, at a terrible moment in U.S.
history, a strange man seemed to sprout, out of nowhere, into the
rocky landscape between New York City and Hartford, Conn. The
word “strange” hardly captures his strangeness. He was rough and
hairy, and he wandered around on back roads, sleeping in caves.
Above all, he refused to explain himself. As one newspaper put
it: “He is a mystery, and a very greasy and ill-odored one.”
Other papers referred to him as “the animal” or (just throwing up
their hands) “this uncouth and unkempt ‘What is it?’”

But the strangest thing about the stranger was his suit.

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