During the Victorian era in which she was raised, women like Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, known as "Pinky" to her friends, were more often judged by the achievements of their husbands and sons ...

When Douglas was six, Captain MacArthur was assigned to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where "Pinky," as his mother was known, could finally introduce him and his older brother Arthur to life back in ...