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

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These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split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