Provides a history of Christian Scientists, covering their doctrines and practices, organization, place in American society, and changes in beliefs, as well as discussing the work of Mary Baker Eddy.
Traces the history of the Pony Express, a mail delivery service that operated only one and a half years, bringing mail to California along the northern-central route in 1860-61.
Relates the history of the Colony of Maryland from its founding by Cecil Calvert in 1634 to its statehood in 1788 and donation of land and money for the new nation's capital in 1791.
