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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophomore southpaw Charlie Hoar, slated to get the nod from Coach Collard, is bound to have a nightmare in broad daylight when he faces Harvard's high-powered murderer's row, which boasts five .300 hitters...
...modern highway follows the historic roads to Oregon all the way. The wagon trains of a century ago ranged over the valleys to get out of ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile...
...kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before he could walk, survived two Indian attacks, got lost in Wyoming and nine months later caught the men who had left him in Council Bluffs...
Such footnotes on the American temperament seem characteristic rather than unique in The Oregon Trail. As readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark...
...great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens could not edit a magazine in an office. To get away, Steffens traveled through the Middle West, wrote his sensational The Shame of the Cities...