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[[Image:Iron_Mountain_Baby1.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The baby and the infamous valise]]
[[Image:Iron_Mountain_Baby2.gif|thumb|right|220px|William Moses Gould Helms and his rescuers]]
[[Image:Iron_Mountain_Baby3.gif|thumb|right|220px|Helms as a young man]]
'''Iron Mountain Baby''' refers both to a [[folksong]] and the subject of that song, William Moses Gould Helms.

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*"Iron Mountain Baby," Sandra Braggs and Heather Click, re-edited from ''All Aboard'' vol 19, (St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway) [http://www.slimrr.com/ironbaby.html slimrr.com] 
*[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bv4hlIvZZdwJ:www.trainweb.org/fecnrhs/The_EAST_COAST_CHAMPION_Sep05.doc+%22Iron+Mountain+Baby%22+Helms&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us Another version of the events ]
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==External links==
*[http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/1483/index.html lyrics to folksong, with recording collected by [[Max Hunter]] from Laura Arthur, [[Springfield, Missouri]] on November 2, 1972] 
*[http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/0568/ Another version, sung by Mrs. Haden Robinson, [[Fayetteville, Arkansas]], November 26, 1960] 
*[http://www.carrollscorner.net/IronMtnBabyPictures.htm Photographs related to the case]
*[http://www.mogenweb.org/washington/cemetery/hopewell_f.html Burial records (with tombstone photos) of Helms and his adoptive parents]

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[[Category:American folk songs]]
[[Category:American folklore]]
[[Category:Missouri State University alumni]]
[[Category:1953 deaths]]
[[Category:1902 births]]
[[Category:St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway]]
[[Category:Songs about trains]]