February/March 1981
Departments
AMERICAN CHARACTERS
POSTSCRIPTS
READERS’ ALBUM
Features
A Classic Riddle of the Sea From an Absorbing New Book
To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race
To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory …
An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by Garry Wills , together with the
Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by Don E. Fehrenbacher
A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they?
The story behind the recently rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed