This ‘Mouse Colored Ass’ Was NYC’s Gilded Age Gatekeeper
‘A DISCHARGED SERVANT’This short, pudgy, balding Southerner, a “dedicated social climber of comical determination,” latched onto “the Mrs. Astor” to make himself the arbiter of high society.
The Warrior Horse, the Soldier-General & the Last Honest War
‘Fear, and be Slain’The “dashing man of action” who led his own troops into battle in a much earlier, not so-long-ago era.
Drinking With Washington
Bull’s Head TavernPlans for a new hotel in New York have been halted by the discovery that the building site may be the original location of the famed Bull’s Head Tavern, a bar Washington visited.