July is the busiest month for Yellowstone National Park, where vacationers find a cool respite from the sizzling heat. T…
Tag: Ulysses S. Grant
From Frontier Soldier to Peacemaking President U.S. Grant and the West.
On March 4, 1869, a rather unlikely candidate took his oath of office as the eighteenth president of the United States. …
Man of War and Peace Ron Chernow’s new biography of Ulysses S. Grant challenges misconceptions plus new biographical studies of icons Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, Civil War soldier Charles A. Curtis, actors Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, and author Ernest Haycox.
A century and a half ago, Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant was fated to become the Republican nominee for preside…