Born Christmas Day 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts, and referred to by her parents as their “Christmas Angel” she would later be known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” The youngest of five children, it was apparent from an early age that Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who...
It was midnight, and 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber was sitting alone in the bus station in Pensacola, Florida. Before leaving with her latest boyfriend, his mother had given him money and told him to buy a ticket to his 14-year-old married sister’s house in Gastonia,...
Nocona, Texas, population 3,033, was once the “Leather Goods Center of the Southwest.” The two-stoplight town, located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, has been home to a number of boot and belt companies dating back to the cattle drives 150 years ago. Most of the...
Twenty-two-year-old Harvard University student Norman Vaughan was trying to make the freshman football team when he read the headlines in a Boston newspaper, “Byrd to the South Pole.” Thoughts of the expedition consumed him and he told his four roommates, “I’ve got to...
To the loggers and company officials at Maxxam Lumber in Humboldt, California, 23-year-old Julia “Butterfly” Hill was an “extremist tree-hugging hippy radical environmentalist.” To the environmental activists at Earth First, she was a courageous, inspirational,...
