Issue

October 1964, Volume 15, No.6


Featured Articles

Coast To Coast In 12 Crashes

Author: Sherwood Harris

Only the rudder and a strut or two remained ol his original plane and he was on crutches, but CaI Rodgers flew from sea to sea and lived—just barely

A Civil, And Sometimes Uncivil, War

Author: Bruce Catton

A Union veteran talks of life in a prison camp: it was bad, yet there were times one could recall happily

“the Most Improveablest Land…”

Author: John Brooks

Somehow the royal land grants in New Jersey are still operating, and every now and then they pay off

Utopia, Limited

Author: William E. Wilson

Of New Harmony, Indiana, its celibates and reformers, and of certain new wrinkles in the pursuit of happiness

The Scrimshaw Collector

Author: Croswell Bowen

Was T. R. A Drunk?

Author: Jay G. Hayden

He safaried to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with an entourage of celebrities as witnesses, to defend his reputation in court

He Paints With Lakes And Wooded Slopes…

Author: John Stuart Martin

Frederick Law Olmsted founded a new artistic profession in America. Today he is scarcely known by the millions who use and enjoy his works

The Lady-killer

Author: A. I. Schutzer

A tale of bigamous Johann Hoch (if that was his name), of the follies of wealthy widows, and of the dreadful discoveries of a parson who suspected the worst