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Barbara Klaw

October/November 1980

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Volume

31

Issue

6

The Alcotts The Fall of Fortresses Rufus Porter, Rediscovered

Stories published from "October/November 1980"

Too Many Philosophers

Authored by: Dorothy Rieber Joralemon

When Winifred Smith Rieber confidently agreed to paint a group portrait of America’s five pre-eminent philosophers, she had no idea it would be all but impossible even to get them to stay in the same room with one another.

She Had To Die!

Authored by: Ann Jones

One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder

Trove

Authored by: Emily Hahn

The saga of Kip Wagner, the first modern American to grow rich from ancient Spanish treasure

Democracy Delineated

Authored by: Marshall B. Davidson

Declaring himself a “thorough democrat” George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye—and a seasoned politicians savvy

“turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday”

Authored by: William Saroyan

Memories of Fresno

“Half Song-thrush, Half Alligator,”

Authored by: Justin Kaplan

An exasperated Ralph Waldo Emerson said of his rudest, most rebellious—and most brilliant—protégé. Their turbulent relationship survived what one newspaper called “the grossest violation of literary comity and courtesy that ever passed under our notice.”

A Heritage Preserved

Authored by: T. H. Watkins

Arkansas saves fragments of the rich but distant past.

“Rocked in the Cradle of Consternation”

Authored by: Reverend Henry M. Turner

A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65

Katmai

Authored by: James C. Simmons

Sixty-eight years before Mount St. Helens blew, Alaska’s Mount Katmai erupted—and nearly brought on a second ice age

Fraternal Arts

Authored by: The Editors

The Ubiquitous Signs and Symbols of American Freemasonry