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As the fabric-covered plane came to a halt, frenzied sou-venir hunters tore at it, putting French officials on guard. Hailed in his home state of Minnesota, the 25-year-old pilot hated the nickname Lucky, bestowed on him after the flight. After sleeping in splendor at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, he awoke to a life, he said, "that could hardly have been more amazing if I had landed on another planet." On an old postcard kept by the Richards family, Tudor Richards has written, "We saw him land!"

We saw him land!

In a long-lost letter an American woman describes Lindbergh's tumultuous touchdown in Paris—75 years ago this month
May 01, 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Portraits on the Plains

Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real "Wild West"
May 2000 | By Edwards Park

A Darkness in Donora

When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start
November 1999 | By Edwin Kiester, Jr.

Review of 'All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s'

September 1999 | By Bruce Watson

Steaming into the Future

An ungainly monster, the steam traction engine helped turn the buffalo's pasture into America's breadbasket
September 1998 | By Diotima Booraem

Smithsonian Notable Books for Children, 1995

November 01, 1995 | By Kathleen Burke


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