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For $2400 dollars Russell Bliss sprayed every road in Times Beach Missouri. For $33 million dollars the federal government bought the entire town and burned it to the ground. Between those two numbers is the story of how a chain of decisions, each one a little cheaper than the last, erased a community of 2000 people from the map and turned the place where they’d raise their families into a grass covered mound that hikers walk over today without knowing what’s beneath their feet.