Issue
April 1969, Volume 20, No.3
Featured Articles
The Man Who Could Talk To Horse
Author: Tom Mccarthy
John Solomon Rarey was possibly the greatest horse tamer the world has ever seen; his incredible feats made him the toast of Victoria, Napoleon III, and the Czar
A View Of The Moon From The Sun: 1835
Author: Joseph L. Morrison
The Emergence Of Modern Mexico
Author: Douglas Tunstell
The period between Mexican independence and the constitution of 1917 was turbulent and painful
Louis Philippe In America
Author: Morris Bishop
The future French king asked Washington for directions and got an arduous tour of a new nation’s wilderness
The Iron Spine
Author: Henry Sturgis
The Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory—and the nation had truly been railroaded
The Trumpet Sounds Again
Author: James Thomas Flexner
After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”
Mexico
Author: Enrique Hank Lopez
In the bright mestizo tapestry of Mexico’s thirty centuries of civilization, the Indian, the Spanish, and the modern threads interweave—and tangle
A Fateful Friendship
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich