HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — For millennia, they’ve come for the water that provides this place its title.
Native People had been first, constructing thatched grass lodges to wash within the pure springs they believed had therapeutic powers. Then white people confirmed up, first in stagecoaches and later by prepare, assured by docs that the mineral-rich thermal swimming pools would treatment no matter ailed them, from syphilis to paralysis.
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