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...easier, after you have seen . . . the cities and the serene little towns . . . the vast, unpeopled prairies, the forests and the deserts, to understand why the pioneers who pushed the frontier westward . . . should have felt a great pride and joy in the free land they were building...
Martyr's Crown. But as the early Mormons moved westward, across Ohio to Missouri and then to Illinois, harried from Zion to Zion, sometimes tarred and feathered, sometimes killed in skirmishes with gentiles, Impostor Joseph Smith came close to being a prophet. Smith (Biographer Brodie believes) gradually hypnotized himself as well as others. He saw himself now as a true Moses, and at the end, faced with the choice of flight or death by lynching, he wavered, then took death and a martyr's crown...
...also displayed a series of telegrams which she had received from Pappy as she traveled westward to Reno. They ended with the phrases, "All my love," "Love you," "Love you so darn much," "Love you, darling" and "Love you, apple duck...
...Russians, William L. White's controversial discovery that Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod; The Vigil of a Nation, Lin Yutang; Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein; Forever China, Robert Payne...
...very different kind of book on the same general subject is Robert Sherrod's On to Westward. As a TIME correspondent, Sherrod followed the war in the Central Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa. The tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo...