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In 1885 Jane Stanford and her husband, Leland Stanford, co-founded a university in memory of their young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford steered the university and its policies into eccentricity and controversy for more than a decade. She died in 1905, her vast fortune the university's lifeline. To foreclose challenges to her bequests, the Stanford president and his allies insisted it was death by natural causes. But it w...

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to "print the legend, " collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer, in excavating the layers of legend built into...