Monday, July 2, 2012
Bentonville Correction
A reader, Clyde, informed me that the town of Bentonville was named after Thomas Hart Benton's uncle (of the same name) rather than Thomas Hart Benton the artist. That the uncle ? a senator from Missouri ? was one of the principal advocates of that wicked idea known as "Manifest Destiny" (still very much alive [...]
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