August/september 1981

America’s First Native Cookbook

A preview of a magnificent private collection of nineteenth-century art

This puckish, nearly forgotten California architect built his own distinctive style on the simple principle that beauty alone endures

The Rise and Fall of a Most American Dream

In the Meuse-Argonne, this backwoods pacifist did what Marshal Foch saw as “the greatest thing accomplished by any private’ soldier of all the armies of Europe.”

How a Courtly Game Became Big Business

The Forgotten Photographs of Nancy Ford Cones

How the happy combination of a millionaire and, a parson gave us Colonial Williamsburg, a place of surpassing loveliness—and a continuing reminder of what a truly bold enterprise our Revolution was

The John Bull Steams Again

A HERITAGE PRESERVED