The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles
Stuff You Missed in History Class
September 25, 201731m 8s
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Show Notes
For a brief window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun. These staged spectacles would draw thousands and thousands of paying onlookers, but why exactly were they so popular?
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