American Heritage's Spring 2010. Volume 60. Number 1 features on cover: Charles C. Schreyvogel's Breaking Through the Lines.

Features articles in this issue:

MARK TWAIN - the greatest American wit, who died 100 years ago, patented a history board game in 1885 as "Mark Twain's Memory-Builder: A Game for Acquiring and Retaining All Sorts of FACTS and DATES."

Sizzling Leroy "SATCHEL" PAIGE - the pitcher with the unhittable fireball, won the 1948 World Series as a "rookie" major-league pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In his autobiography, "Pitchin'Man", he described his 22-year career on how he perfected his high-kick delivery, [photograph in p.55.]

The PONY EXPRESS - It ran only briefly 150 years ago until the  click of the transcontinental telegraph shut it down 78 weeks later. Its original founders: William Hepburn Russell, Alexander Majors and William Bradford Waddell, never made a dime from the business; it was one of the most colossal and celebrated failures in American business history, but its legacy, remained an enduring and revered piece of the Old West myth.

ROANOKE: Britain's first colony in North America simply vanished.Top Historical Sites in Colorado,

and lots more in this issue.

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