The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 2)

by Various

PORTRAITS—Lorenzo Dow Thompson, Jonathan Moore		[Frontispiece]
SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY		Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D.	[61]
	Illustrations:
	Account of Negro School-House Cost—Boston Committee of Correspondence Notice—Delaware Pilot’s “Broadside”
EARLY MENTION OF EVENTS IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY		David S. Kellogg, M.D.	[77]
LINCOLN (Poem)		Mary Isabella Forsyth	[85]
CAPTAIN LINCOLN vs. PRIVATE THOMPSON		Frank E. Stevens	[86]
(Author of “The Black Hawk War”)
SIDE-LIGHTS ON CAROLINA HISTORY		H. E. Belin	[91]
INDIAN AGRICULTURE IN WISCONSIN		Benj. H. Hibbard	[97]
THE AUTHENTICITY OF CARVER’S “TRAVELS”			[105]
OLD FORT GEORGE, NEW YORK CITY		Edw. Hagaman Hall	[107]
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
(Sec’y Am. Scenic and Hist. Pres. Soc’y)
	A War Letter of Walt Whitman		[113]
	Letter of Lincoln Declining an Office		[114]
SOCIETIES—New York—Rhode Island			[115]
NOTES AND QUERIES			[116]
MINOR TOPICS			[116]
GENEALOGY			[117]
BOOK NOTICE			[121]

Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt.

Private LORENZO DOW THOMPSON.
The wrestler who threw Captain Abraham Lincoln.
From original owned by Henry Cadle, Esq., Bethany, Mo.

JONATHAN MOORE.
The referee of the match.
From photo owned by his son, Col. R. M. Moore. San Antonio, Texas.

THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

Vol. I      FEBRUARY, 1905      No. 2

SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY