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1. Hering, Foibles and Fallacies of Science, 240.
2. Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, quoted in Frazer, “Some Popular Superstitions,” 142.
3. White, History of the Warfare, 1:323–372.
4. Arago, Meteorological Essays, 219.
5. Lomax, Bells and Bellringers, 20.
6. Arago, Meteorological Essays, 211–213.
7. Fitzgerald, “At War with the Clouds,” 629–636; Hering, “Weather Control,” 185.
8. Cerveny, Freaks of the Storm, 36.
9. Abbe, “Hail Shooting in Italy,” 358.
10. Owning the Weather (Greene).
11. Humphreys, Rain Making, 1.
12. News clipping, undated, Franklin Papers.
13. Franklin, “Weather Control,” 496–497.
14. Franklin, “Much-Needed Change of Emphasis,” 452.
15. Franklin, “Weather Control,” 496–497.
16. Franklin, “Weather Prediction and Weather Control,” 378.
17. Abbe, “Cannonade Against Hail Storms,” 738–739.
18. Caldwell, “Some Kansas Rain Makers,” 309.
19. Spence, Rainmakers, 52–63.
20. “Current Notes,” 192.
21. “Kansas All Right Now She Has Ten Rainmaking outfits Ready for Service,” St.
Louis Republic, April 25, 1894, 12
22. “A Successful Rainmaker: How Clayton B. Jewell Coaxes Moisture from Cloudless
Skies,” Columbus Enquirer-Sun, August 12, 1894, 6.
23. Tate and Tate, Good Old Days Country Wisdom, 95–96.
24. “Unfortunate Rain-maker,” 735.
25. Quoted in T. E. Murtaugh, “Rainmaker C. M. Hatfield as Seen at Close Range,” Los
Angeles Examiner, March 19, 1904, reprinted in San Antonio Daily Express, April 2,
1905, 8.
26. Moore, “Fake Rainmaking,” 153.
27. Patterson, “Hatfield the Rainmaker,” n.p.
28. “Fake Rainmaker,” 84.
29. Canada, House of Commons, Official Report of Debates, 562
30. Tuthill, “Hatfield the Rainmaker,” 107–110.
31. Jenkins, Wizard of Sun City, 5–6.
32. Patterson, “Hatfield the Rainmaker,” n.p.; Spence, Rainmakers, 79–99.
33. Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 17, 1920, reprinted in Bulletin of the American Meteoro-
logical Society 1 (1920): 80–82.
34. “Rain Maker Asked to Turn off Faucets,” Wyoming State Tribune, May 23, 1921, 2.
35. “Rainmaker Makes Hit: Dr. Hatfield Biggest Hero in Italy Today,” Morning Orego-
nian, September 2, 1922, 4; “Rainmaker Fails,” 591.
36. Carpenter, “Alleged Manufacture of Rain,” 377.
37. Liebling, Honest Rainmaker, 9.

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