During the Great Depression my great grandfather went to Bolivia to set up a chinchilla farm. What they didn't realise is that the Nativ Americans had started catching chinchillas too, so they couldn't catch any and went bankrupt. He had to escape by jumping from a bridge onto a moving train. This hat and whip belonged to him.
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