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Gaylord Saltzgaber's Genesis of North Liberty (1978) — the keeper and the missing book

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Published, by its only attestation, in 1978; location unproven (gap G-SP-3)

The town's collected stock — the one book that would settle the naming story, the millpond date, the fire depth, and half the gaps in this build — exists by citation and cannot be produced. Gaylord Saltzgaber, Genesis of North Liberty (North Liberty, Indiana: self-published, 1978) is attested only by the bibliography of the North Liberty Commercial Historic District nomination (Garner, 2012, read first-hand). No catalog record, holding, or digitised copy exists in WorldCat, the SJCPL catalog, the Indiana State Library's county-history holdings guide (read whole — it lists town histories for five sister towns and no North Liberty title at all), FamilySearch, Archive.org, HathiTrust, or Google Books; every apparent hit resolved to the Iowa sesquicentennial volume. Disposition: location unproven — a documented negative, sharpened across three passes of this build. The book is this section's closing fact, and not a colourful aside: several settlers named across this build are, in the end, this one settler. A book that cannot be located has no image row.

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Source: Gaylord Saltzgaber's Genesis of North Liberty (1978) — the keeper and the missing book, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/folklore/gaylord-saltzgaber-s-genesis-of-north-liberty-1978-the/