American heritage : [electronic resource] February/March 1981, vol. 32, no. 2.
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TextPublisher: New York : American Heritage Pub., 1981Description: 112 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.Subject(s): America -- Discovery and exploration | Cost and standard of living -- United States | Guy, Francis, 1760-1820 | Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945 | Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872 | Florida -- Anecdotes | Wister, Owen, 18860-1938 | Cowboys -- United States | Dogs -- Anecdotes | Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825 | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Correspondence | Red Cross and Red Crescent -- History -- Pictorial works | Daguerreotype -- History | Antismoking movement -- History | Advertising -- Cigarettes -- Pictorial worksOnline resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive Volume 32 | Additional information and access via Open Library Volume 32 "Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
"By chaos out of dream": an exploration into the exploration of America / Wallace Stegner -- The cost of living in America, 1800-1980: a graphic treatment / John A. Garraty -- Town & country: the smaller, greener Baltimore of Francis Guy / Stiles Tuttle Colwill -- The mystery of the Mary Celeste: a classic riddle of the sea from an absorbing new book / Ormonde de Kay -- Ernie Pyle: chronicler of "The men who do the dying" / Paul Lancaster -- American characters: Henry Wager Halleck / Richard F. Snow -- "The woods were tossing with jewels": a childhood in the Florida wilderness / Marie St. John -- A heritage preserved: Miami deco / T.H. Watkins -- From Camelot to Abilene: Owen Wister creates the cowboy myth / John Lukacs -- Canines to Canaan: the story of some forgotten four-footed pioneers / Clark C. Spence -- Mason Weems, bibliopolist: what the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree means / Garry Wills -- 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.
A bulwark against mighty woes: the hundredth anniversary of the American Red Cross -- "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 -- Thank you for not smoking: the hundred-year war against the cigarettee / Gordon L. Dillow -- Readers' album: the Chinese connection.