December+1979

=Volume 14, Number 8, December 1979=

[[image:dec79.jpg width="150" height="193" align="right"]]Featured Articles
Page 8 Jazz: Red Hot & Cool By Brian McGinty Part I: Songs of the slaves evolve into a bold new beat

Page 12 The Battle on Snowshoes By Gary Zaboly The Ambush backfires and Rogers' Rangers fave annihilation 1758

Page 25 A Cowboy's Christmas By Patricia C. Johnston Season's Greetings from cowpoke-artist Charlie Russell 1890's

Page 30 Voyage Via the Orient Letters of CHarles Richardson Bombay. Muscat, and Siam tantalize an American Sailor 1835

Page 36 They Raced Death to Nome By Dean Smith A dog-sled relay defies blizzards and frozen tundra of Alaska 1925