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PROVINCETOWN — As the 35th-anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts, the glossy and scholarly annual journal of Outer Cape art and literature, was preparing to go to press on June 20, Christopher Busa, its cofounder and editorial director, died from complications of a congenital heart defect at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staffers said. Members of his family were at his side. He was

Chris told friends that he was feeling weak and under the weather shortly before he entered the hospital. He was not aware of the congenital condition; his death was sudden and unexpected.

He had founded the magazine in with Raymond Elman. “At first it was just newsprint,” said Sandra Hricko, Chris’s first wife. He and Sandy were living in Provincetown in the house they had bought at Commercial St., which would become the live-in office for Provincetown Arts Press. With the issue, which had Norman Mailer on the cover, the magazine began publishing annually, soon evolving into an integral part of the local arts community. Appearing on its cover was a rite of passage.

The importance of chronicling the Provincetown arts colony — and its connection to world history — was the very reason Chris founded the press, said Elizabeth Winston, an edi

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Christopher C. Augur

American military officer (–)

Christopher Columbus Augur (July 10, – January 16, ) was an American military officer, most noted for his role in the American Civil War. Although less well known than many other army contemporaries, he was considered an able battlefield commander.

Early life

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Augur was born in Kendall, New York. He moved with his family to Michigan and entered West Point in ^[1] Augur graduated in in the same class as General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant.^[2] Following his graduation, Augur served as aide-de-camp to Generals Hopping and Cushing during the Mexican–American War, and during the s took an active part in the campaigns of the western frontier against the Yakima and Rogue River tribes of Washington and, in , against the Oregon Indians. In Oregon, he was responsible for building Fort Hoskins in Kings Valley.^[3]

Civil War

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Augur was promoted to the rank of Major in the 13th Infantry on May 14, ^[4] The American Civil War was just over four months old when Augur was made Commandant of Cadets at West Point on August 26, , replacing John F. Reynolds who, newly promoted to Brigadier General, had left that position on June 25, , to perform other military duties.^[5] Aug