But Berlin suggests Joplin may have continued the tour to recoup his losses. A misfortune in Springfield, Illinois, possibly left Joplin without money to continue. Joplin was on a Midwestern tour with his Ragtime Opera Company scheduled to play shows in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Joplin, the African American composer of the Maple Leaf Rag (1899) and other popular piano rags, had recently finished composing his first ragtime opera, A Guest of Honor. Selected sources on Pittsburg and other cities and towns in Kansas are now available on Kansas Memory under the category Places-Cities and Towns. Edward Berlin, author of King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era, suggests Joplin may have lost the trunk in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1903. For decades ragtime aficionados have been searching for a lost trunk supposedly containing unpublished music manuscripts by Scott Joplin.
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