Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

... still haven't figured out who did it. * The story was first published in the August 21, 1844 edition of the Ithaca New York Chronicle, (a Whig newspaper). It claimed to be a letter to the editor, quoting a three paragraph extract from an unpublished ...

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