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Everything will be from before 1940, and most of it will be from before 1920. Yellow Bricks, Yellowstone Among other sources of inspiration, I'm thoroughly convinced that the symbolism of Oz borrows heavily from Steam Man of the Prairies, which starts near that now-famous symbolic gateway to the drama and rewards of the American West, St Louis,[...]

This is Auguste Henri Jacob — "Jacob the Zouave" (as I understand it, meaning, a member of the French colonial light infantry corps, known for their fighting skill and impressive uniforms), who in the year this issue of La Lune was printed, 1867, was believed by some to be able to wield healing and clairvoyant[...]