Elizur Butler was a medical missionary on the Trail of Tears with a Cherokee detachment. His letter to his mission board preserved at Harvard estimates deaths at one out of four – however, he made this estimate with no facts or figures, and before his detachment had arrived on Oklahoma. In fact, the deaths in his detachment did not approach the one in four figure, he quoted. Despite his mistake in numbers, he did serve the Cherokee as a missionary until his death in 1857.

Santa Clause, right.

Evan Murphy

Some folks just shouldn’t be left unsupervised when writing the annual Christmas letter.

Brick ranchers sold for $15,000 in the 1970s … now more than $200,000 … single carport dates this yellow-brick model.

Preston Blakely

Catherine Sherrill was manager of the new Cato’s store in 1969. She sold so many wigs that the company gave her a new color television.