Issue
April 1961, Volume 12, No.3
Featured Articles
The Red Ghost
Author: Robert Froman
The huge, cloven-footed creature that terrorized southeast Arizona was no figment of the mind. The grisly story of its origin and fate was more macabre in fact than any fiction
A Face From The Past—i
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Brother Against Brother
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A century ago this month began the war that set
These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split
America And Russia: Part Viii
The Wasted Mission
Author: Robert S. Rifkind
Against a background of postwar turmoil, a 28-year-old State Department aide was sent to negotiate with the Bolshevik leaders. His rebuff by Wilson caused a national uproar
Two Gentlemen From Newburyport
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The eccentric Timothy Dexter finally found a sympathetic biographer in his fellow townsman, novelist John Marquand
The Johnson Country War
Author: Helena Huntington Smith
Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives
Jones Vs. Jones
Author: William G. Mcloughlin
In Toledo a civic crusade matched the popular mayor against a famed evangelist—both with the same name
The Kings Census: 1577
Author: Irma Reed White
Philip II’s cédula real evoked from his overseas domains vivid picture-maps of life in Spanish America
Mad Old Man From Massachusetts
Author: Lawrence Lader
How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause