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The Redskin Who Saved The White Man’s Hide
Author: Sidney O. Reynolds
Chief Washakie earned his battle scars in the service of the Great White Father, who—for once at least—kept faith with an Indian
The Harvard Man In The Kremlin Wall
Author: Bertram D. Wolfe
How Wilbur Wright Taught Europe To Fly
Author: Charles H. Gibbs-smith
Grant At Shiloh
Author: Bruce Catton
Surprised and almost overwhelmed, he stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct saved his army and his job
“The Isles Shall Wait For His Law”
Author: Bradford Smith
So the Bible said, but American missionaries found Hawaii a paradise where pleasure reigned, and the sense of sin was difficult to teach
The Money-maker
Author: Robert N. Linscott
The Town That Stopped The Clock
Author: Cabell Phillips
A noted newspaperman writes of his birthplace, a community in which time stood still—and then started backwards
“General” Eaton And His Improbable Legion
Author: William Harlan Hale
Weary of his humiliating job—American pay-off man to the piratical Arab states—this bold Yankee civilian raised his own army and won our strangest foreign war
“Échec!”
Author: Ernest Wittenberg
The bizarre career of “The Turk,” an ingenious mechanical chess player that defeated Frederick the Great, George III, and Napoleon (whom it caught cheating) and nearly fooled all America
"As I Am Now So You Must Be”
Author: Ivan Sandrof
The crumbling headstones of New England’s Puritan burying grounds honor the dead) warn the living, and promise a bright resurrection