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Foote's scholarship is obviously extensive, but he is also a gifted storyteller and assembler of vignettes. He includes nice touches of grand illusion. When Bedford Forrest led his Confederate cavalrymen on a raid into occupied Memphis, one of his officers captured the uniform of the Federal commander, C.C. Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson...
...anybody thinks bicycles are having a boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...
Whittled at, mocked, its history rewritten, the American West has taken a battering in recent years. The myth of the 19th century frontier-brave mule skinners and noble cavalrymen bringing civilization across the Great Plains-is dying out like the buffalo. This discovery, leaving a painful hole in America's stock of self-images, helps explain the recent surge of interest in 19th century frontier art. The latest evidence of it is a delightful show called "The American West," which drew crowds to the Los Angeles County Museum through the spring and will open June...
...well as pommes frites. Hulking busts of Lenin sold for $4.50. There was a 15-hour marathon in the central committee tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...
...Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops prepared to slice into new infiltration routes that the Communists had been trying to extend from the Cambodian seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...