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http://etd.lib.ttu.edu/theses/available/etd-08272008- 31295010064680/unrestricted/31295010064680.pdf Accessed 1/27/2010 See Rosenthal, Mapleson. pp. 172- 173 and 182-183 for an excellent first-hand chronicle of the exigencies of traveling with an opera troupe across America in the 1870s and 1880s.