# Endnotes explained — One of Ours

> Chapter companion for One of Ours by Willa Cather.

## What happens

The endnotes provide a brief note acknowledging that the depiction of the influenza outbreak on troop transports in the narrative is historically anticipated by several months.

## Key lines

> The actual outbreak of influenza on transports carrying United States troops is here anticipated by several months.

The story places the flu outbreak on American troop ships earlier than it historically occurred.

_Author's note on historical timing of influenza events._

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