Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Miss Albert's selections included well-known and representative folk music from all parts of the United States, in addition to such staple English ballads as 'Lord Randall." Her renditions of the western ballad, "The Cowboy Lament" and John Jacob Niles' arrangement of "I Wonder" met loud applause from her listeners...
Inspired by the discovery of paintings showing the fur trade, "Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...
...ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work in the Rockies and Wyeth returned without his fortune...
Illustrated with a series of superb plates by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin, "Across the Wide Missouri" is a comprehensive study that flows with the case of a good novel. Mr. Devote's excellent style makes history a pleasure. G.G.D...