Peter Rugg: The Missing Man by William Austin

Banned Library Podcast by ST Harker

Apr 7, 202600:25:20Education

Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, one of the most famous stories in its time about the most travelled man in the original American colonies that became au urban legend without ever existing.

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