American heritage
Subtitle: February/March 1981, vol. 32, no. 2.
Publisher: American Heritage Pub.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Correspondence; Antismoking movement; Anecdotes; Red Cross and Red Crescent; Daguerreotype; Cost and standard of living; Cigarettes; Advertising; Cowboys; Discovery and exploration; Dogs; Pictorial works; History
Notes: "Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
Table of contents: title: "By chaos out of dream": an exploration into the exploration of America / Wallace Stegner; title: The cost of living in America, 1800-1980: a graphic treatment / John A. Garraty; title: Town & country: the smaller, greener Baltimore of Francis Guy / Stiles Tuttle Colwill; title: The mystery of the Mary Celeste: a classic riddle of the sea from an absorbing new book / Ormonde de Kay; title: Ernie Pyle: chronicler of "The men who do the dying" / Paul Lancaster; title: American characters: Henry Wager Halleck / Richard F. Snow; title: "The woods were tossing with jewels": a childhood in the Florida wilderness / Marie St. John; title: A heritage preserved: Miami deco / T.H. Watkins; title: From Camelot to Abilene: Owen Wister creates the cowboy myth / John Lukacs; title: Canines to Canaan: the story of some forgotten four-footed pioneers / Clark C. Spence; title: Mason Weems, bibliopolist: what the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree means / Garry Wills; title: Lincoln's lost love letters: a cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they? / Don E. Fehrenbacher.; title: A bulwark against mighty woes: the hundredth anniversary of the American Red Cross; title: "A very good specimen of the daguerreotype": the story behind the recently rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed / Marian S. Carson; title: Thank you for not smoking: the hundred-year war against the cigarettee / Gordon L. Dillow; title: Readers' album: the Chinese connection.