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How A Comic Book Publisher's Family Helped Start the Republican Party
Duganne (comic illustration from Yankee Notions #2, 1852) and Buffalo Bill promoter and political agitator Ned Buntline. The Showman and the Iron Man In 1844, Samuel Bowles III took over the paper his father had founded Young Bowles was just 18 years old at the time, and perhaps because of his youth he realized something that has[...]