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The American West in the mid 19th century made profound demands on all those fated to experience it. The cost for even momentary lapses of vigilance was often death, and the people raised under the intense pressures and expectations of this time and place were a hard lot - self-sufficient almost to a fault, capable of feats of endurance and application that beggar belief today. Competence and self-reliance on that scale, however, usually comes at a steep cost. Having done so

In telling the story of M. Carey Thomas, there is no getting around the fundamental fact that she was, resoundingly, a terrible person....

What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...