October/November 1978

Departments
A HERITAGE PRESERVED
AMERICAN CHARACTERS
Editors Note
POSTSCRIPTS
Features
A. B. Frost faithfully recorded the woodland pursuits of himself and his affluent friends
The life and death of the world’s largest textile mill, in the words of the men and women who worked there
Was the Cuban leader always a Marxist or did the United States impel him in that direction? A distinguished historian of Cuban affairs examines the critical years when the Castro revolution became a communist dictatorship.
Henry Morion Stanley, who later found Dr. Livingstone, reports the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, October, 1867
Gargantuan, gross, and cynical, the patrician boss Boies Penrose descended from aristocracy to dominate Pennsylvania Republican politics for thirty years
They went to the woods with rod and gun—and gloves, servants, caviar, and champagne
The mysterious diseases that nearly wiped out the Indians of New England were the work of the Christian God — or so both Pilgrims and Indians believed.
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