Never was more apt the German proverb, “Truth is its own justification,” than in the telling of the story of that most remarkable of women, Sarah Bernhardt. During her life, in spite of the fact that she enjoyed more widespread publicity than any other person, man or woman, remarkably little was known by the public of her real life story. The very extent of this worldwide publicity served, in fact, as a sort of smoke-screen to conceal the intimate personality of the woman it vaunted. To th...

The book opens with an examination of the indigenous peoples of Arizona, detailing their cultures, traditions, and the intricate systems of life they developed long before European contact. Cady and Woon explore the legacy of the Hohokam and Pueblo cultures, emphasizing their contributions to the region’s history and the significance of their archaeological sites. The narrative then transitions to the arrival of Spanish explorers and missionaries in the 16th century, highlighting the profo...

Fourteen years before that broad, bloody line began to be drawn between the North and the South of the "United States of America," before there came the terrific clash of steel and muscle in front of which the entire world retreated to a distance, horrified, amazed, fascinated and confounded; before there came the dreadful day when families were estranged and birthrights surrendered, loves sacrificed and the blight of the bullet placed on hundreds of thousands of sturdy hearts—fourteen yea...