[Texas Fossil]

“Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm

by Charles Mackay (1852)

See:

“Relics”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvii.html#relics

[Graybeard58]

Thanks for the links, I’ve bookmarked them for later reading. There’s a lot there and very interesting.