For a brief period between 1914-1917, Tom Thomson, working in remote Algonquin Park, Ontario, produced a series of canvases which redefined Canadian landscape painting. His death in 1917 sparked numerous conspiracy theories--from murder to suicide (over his pregnant girlfriend? despondency over being rejected by the WWI military?) which are staples of Canadian popular culture. Klages presents an extended exercise in document forensics as he lays out and then dismantles the theories using carefully gathered letters, reports and official paperwork, explain at each stage how he's doing it, and why the wild idea was so appealing to the public. This would make a nice case study for a historical methods class.