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To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race

The Story of Some Forgotten Four-Footed Pioneers

To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory …
An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by Garry Wills , together with the
Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by Don E. Fehrenbacher

A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they?

The Hundredth Anniversary of the American Red Cross

The story behind the recently rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed

THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR AGAINST THE CIGARETTE

A Graphic Treatment

The Smaller, Greener Baltimore of Francis Guy