Issue

April 1962, Volume 13, No.3


Featured Articles

Massacre!

Author: Ralph K. Andrist

Minnesota’s Sioux uprising began with senseless murder on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. Before it ended, the smell of death was everywhere

The Disquieting Quaker

Author: Blanche Day

A hundred years ahead of his time, the fiery abolitionist Benjamin Lay assaulted the consciences of Philadelphia slaveowners—and won

Thanks, But No Thanks, Mr. Bell

Author: Joseph G. Cannon

The powerful Speaker of the House missed not one but two chances to invest in AT&T in the early days

Peary Or Cook: Who Discovered The North Pole?

Author: John Edward Weems

Almost simultaneously two men claimed to have attained a goal that explorers had striven toward for centuries. There were strong hints that one of them was an impostor

They Were All Sure Shots

Author: James B. Trefethen

To a wide-eyed public Buffalo Billpresented a group of matchless marksmen —and one unforgettable girl—whose prowess with a rifle was wonderful to see

Private Yankee Doodle

Author: Joseph Plumb Martin

BEING
A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier, interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation.

Thackeray In Love

Author: Lida Mayo

“You may marry anybody you please & I don’t care.” Thus the famous English author to wild, pretty Sally Baxter of New York; which is to say that he—and his American love—never got over it at all.

Ocean To Ocean—by Automobile!

Author: Bruce Catton

Cross-country touring was difficult, half a century ago, but if you could make it, you really had an adventure