The complete online text of The Messengers by Richard Harding Davis.

The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public. Richard Harding Davis was born into a well-to-do and rather pious Episcopalian family...

Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth-century America, however, Davis epitomized the Americ...

Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his dashing life-style, which seemed never to impede his...

Alas, "atonement and reconciliation" are not the only messages that Rev. Louis Farrakhan espouses. His motives and beliefs are troubling and dangerous. Bringing pride and purpose to black males can encourage a healthy sense of personal responsibility, but a movement that deepens the divisions...

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Gov. Jim Gibbons and his ever-shrinking circle of supporters have been bashing Elko County Assessor Joe Aguirre over revelations that the governor received a huge break on his property taxes. Last year Gibbons and his wife, Dawn, bought 40 acres in rural Elko County,...

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