June 1970

Had it been specifically designed for the purpose, says the author, the motorcar could not be doing a better job of destroying our cities and countryside

Notes on the continuing battle

Henry Adams and John LaFarge in the South Seas

On a green island in the cold waters of Lake Michigan, James Jesse Strang became the crowned, polygamous ruler of a Mormon “empire”

— George Eastman did

A few notes for Mr. Bartlett

In which John Jones, né Paul, invades both England and Scotland, despoils a countess, and defeats a British sloop—all in less than forty-eight hours

The shore line of Pyramid Lake, one of the West's great natural wonders, is steadily receding, robbed of the water it needs by a Bureau of Reclamation irrigation project.