of the hoax, Hal Wilshire, confessed the secret. Harry Lee Wilber The alleged Boxer Rebellion connection originated many years later with Denver songwriter Harry Lee Wilber (1875–1946). Wilber embellished the original tale when he wrote an article "A Fake That Rocked the World," for the North American Review in 1939. Wilber's article claimed that when the "pure canard" reached China, the newspapers there published it with "shouting headlines" and the Boxers, "already incensed, believed the yarn" and "all hell broke loose." Wilber's article was reprinted 17 years later in Great Hoaxes of All Time (1956), edited by Robert Medill McBride and Neil Pritchie. Wilber, who composed the music for "Back to Dear Old Denver Town" (1912), was the first manager of the Fox Fullerton Theater (Fullerton, California) after it was constructed in 1924–25. The legend was also told in More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story (1981). Legacy In 2012, the Denver Theater Center presented "The Great Wall Story," a play by Lloyd Suh, based on the incident. Notes References Harvey, Jr., Paul. More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story. Pages 136-138. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1980. Harvey, Jr., Paul. Good Housekeeping. Serialization of More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story. Klein, Alexander, editor. The Fabulous Rogues. New York: Ballantine, 1960. . Includes images of original articles. External links A typical Power of the Tongue sermon 19th-century hoaxes Boxer Rebellion Hoax Hoaxes in the United States Journalistic hoaxes June 1899 events