Scoundrels and Scriveners: How the West Was Really Won

Scoundrels and Scriveners: How the West Was Really Won

by Mark Harvey All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth–including America, of course–consist of pilferings from other people’s wash. —Mark Twain, Following the Equator “Me and My Partner”, Puck Magazine, CJ Taylor, 1887 There’s a wonderful story from Paul Bunyan Swings His Ax about how a heat wave in Iowa made all the field corn pop until the whole state was covered in ten feet of popcorn. Then a terrific …