The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad" The underground railroad with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave hunting villains has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In