Issue
February 1970, Volume 21, No.2
Featured Articles
That Mess On The Prestile
Author: Frank Graham Jr.
From a way Down East came a stench of politics and potatoes, and news of a border incident that true patriots will long remember as
Field Notes
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History As Junk
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“A Melancholy Case”
Author: Allan L. Damon
In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.
“Never Leave Me, Never Leave Me”
Author: Louis Auchincloss
Memo To: Oliver Wendell Holmes From: The Friends Of Old Ironsides Subject: Help!
Author: C. Bradford Mitchell
The Boy Artist Of Red River
Author: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier
The Policeman’s Lot
Author: Thomas Fleming
Benevolent father figure? Bloody-handed Cossack? Slow-witted flatfoot? Irish grafter? Brave but underpaid public servant? Check your prejudice against this inquiry into police history
The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy
Author: Tom Mccarthy
The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls