He has no official political role, but he is a unifying force and peacemaker in a nation that has become increasingly factionalized and acrimonious.

Art of numbers cossical.

Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]

[O]ne Confederate in the death grip had seized the sharp edge of a huge rock, and with feet held fast in a cleft of the rock above, hung head downwards between the two.