On August 10th

The August 10, 1861 battle is documented; Lyon died on Bloody Hill. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Wilson’s Creek'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

~13,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Minidoka from 1942 to 1945. The documented date is 1942-08-10–1945-10-28. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Minidoka National Historic Site'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds

Minidoka opened August 10, 1942, on Idaho's Snake River plain — eventually confining some 13,000 people, most from Seattle and Portland. Incarcerees built the irrigation systems that still water the farms around it, and a remarkable share of its young men volunteered for the 442nd. The site's surviving barracks and honor roll are now an NHS.

A GRS member captured the widely published infrared photograph of a seated figure—the "Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove.". Ghost Research Society member is named as the reporting witness. The encounter is dated 1991-08-10 in the record. It is filed as a documented account — the account itself, not a verdict on what caused it. Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Midlothian, Illinois supplies the setting. The r