Other Work and Death
He also did work at Key Marco (1896) and on abandoned villages in the American West, He came into contact with Stewart Culin on the World's Columbian Exposition with whom he began to write about the history of games. He choked to death on a fishbone on April 10, 1900, while on a research project in Maine.
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