“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. - Horace Greeley
#HoraceGreeley #character

Chapter 34: Fish Springs to Canyon Station The Overland Trail: 1860-1861, with a bit from 1859

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#RichardF.Burton and #HoraceGreeley

Chapter 33: Dugway to Fish Springs Station From Dugway to Fish Springs:

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Dialog from #MarkTwain, #RichardFBurton and #HoraceGreeley. Fish Springs was a "Home" Station now part of a National Wildlife Refuge.

Where's Horace Greeley when you need him? N.H. native founded NY Tribune, discovered Thoreau, got Abe to write back

Where's Horace Greeley when you need him? open.substack.com/pub/johnnogo... #HoraceGreeley #HenryThoreau #AbrahamLincoln #PresidentsDay #NewYorkTribune

Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), #HoraceGreeley (1811), Gertrude Stein (1874), Norman Rockwell (1894), Alvar Aalto (1898), Simone Weil (1909), Nathan Lane (1956), Ayanna Pressley (1974) were born #OnThisDay...

Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809), #HoraceGreeley (1811), Norman Rockwell (1894), Alvar Aalto (1898), Simone Weil (1909), Nathan Lane (1956), Ayanna Pressley (1974) & Elizabeth Holmes (1984) were born #OnThisDay...