Sublime

August 1876, and Walker died two months later. He was seventy-seven years old. The cause of death, says Bil Gilbert, was nothing more or less than ‘having lived long enough’. How to distil that life into six lines, containing

Walker rode on to California, hung up his saddle at his nephew’s ranch in Contra Costa County, and settled down to a calm, pleasant, dignified retirement, with no recorded bouts of nostalgia or restlessness.

When this theft is committed, Billy is 16 years old. After he escapes, he leaves his home in Silver City, never to return. Any reluctance to leave behind his stepfather and older brother Joseph is likely reduced by the earlier death of his mother of “an affection of the lungs” on September 16, 1874.[52] Another frequent guest who will deal with

We see her face, we see her foot, and we know.

Brother Edwin Booth, the most famous actor of his time and a member of New York Lodge 330, heroically saved a young man from being crushed by a train during the Civil War. Booth's courageous act was made more notable by the fact that the young man was Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln. In an even more incredible twist, Edwin Booth was the