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Piskiou,Vaches Sauvages, Buffler, Prairie Beeves—

How Americans Met the First Great Gasoline Crisis—Nearly Forty Years Ago

THE BLACK SLAVE DRIVER

Her life preservers weighted with scrap-iron, her lifeboats mere decoration, the excursion steamer General Slocum left New York’s Third Street pier at 9:30 on the morning of June 15,1904, with thirteen-hundred picknickers bound for a Long Island beach. Less than an hour later, she was afire.

Lighting Up America