to force Virginia into secession. According to The New York Times, this speech was the "match that exploded the powder magazine and brought on the war." As one of Confederate General Beauregard's aides-de-camp, Roger declined the offer to fire the first cannon of the Civil War. This book motivated Blair to write East by Day.

Society of Woman Geographers

In 1925, during tea with Marguerite Harrison, Blair suggested the formation of a society for woman explorers because the all-men

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