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A Visit From St. Nicholas

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Illustrated with late-nineteenth-century magic-lantern slides Together with a brief inquiry into a Christmas mystery

The Ordeal of Plenty Horses

Author: Robert M. Utley

Caught between two cultures, a young Sioux sought to make himself a hero—by killing an army officer

The Galloping Ghost

Author: Robert S. Gallagher

AN INTERVIEW WITH RED GRANGE

The French Connection

Author: J. H. Plumb

Rakehells, men of good will, adventurers, and bunglers were all in the glittering pageant when the Old World came to help out the New

The Children’s Migration

Author: Annette Riley Fry

It moved more boys and girls than the Children’s Crusade of the Middle Ages—and to far happier conclusions

The American Field Service

Author: Andrew Gray

EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I

“All Hail to Pure Cold Water!”

Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar

Beset with ailments, Victorian women found solace, in more ways than one, in a new panacea—hydropathy

Aunt Julia’s Movie Code

Author: Edward Stevenson

Wood To Burn

Author: John H. White