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    THE DEATH TRAIN

    Jul 14, 2020 4 minutes
    By Peggy Hull

    Peggy Hull was born Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough on a farm near Bennington, Kansas, in 1889. Fascinated by geography since childhood and picturing newspaper work as the best way to “see the world,” she left school at age 16 to become a typesetter for the Junction City Sentinel. In 1908 she got her first reporting job at another Kansas newspaper, the Salina Daily Union, and after that worked for newspapers in Denver, San Francisco, Honolulu, Minneapolis, and Cleveland. In 1916 she went to El Paso, Texas, to cover National Guard units sent to patrol the border as Brigadier General John J. Pershing and his troops pursued Francisco “Pancho” Villa deep into Mexico. Pershing took a

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