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A Last Link with the Living Frontier Read >>
Corruption, Yesterday and Today Read >>
From Poverty and Persecution to Prosperity and Power Read >>
and how, a decade after the Revolution, a melodramatic rescue attempt, involving a grateful young American, went awry Read >>
Of herbal medicine, a “doctor” named Samuel Thomson, and a sure cure for almost everything… Read >>
In the 1930’s, “black blizzards” eroded a 97-million-acre section of the Great Plains, which an AP reporter casually but appropriately termed the “Dust Bowl.” The name stuck. Another Dust Bowl is not inevitable, but it is possible. Read >>

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