When Michelle Kwan won her ninth U.S. ladies figure skating title in 2005, she tied this legendary skater. The post Daily Quiz for April 1,...
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Obama also fought with the lack of his dad, who he watched just once again following his parents divorced, even when Obama Sr. seen Hawaii for a short period in 1971. " had abandoned heaven, and so my mother or grand parents explained might obviate that single, unassailable fact," he later revealed. "they mightn't clarify what it would have been like had he remained." Ten decades after, in 1981, catastrophe struck Obama Sr. if he lost both of his thighs at a severe automobile crash. Confined to a wheel chair, he lost his task.
Back in 1982, Obama Sr. was included with still another auto crash when vacationing at Nairobi. Obama Sr. expired on November 2-4, 1982, when Obama had been 21 yrs of age. "In the time of the passing, my dad remained a myth if you ask me personally," Obama after wrote, "both more and less than a guy." As a young child, Obama didn't need a romance with his dad. After his son was still a baby, Obama Sr. proceeded to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University and also pursue a Ph.D.. The parents of Obama divorced in in which his son had been 2 and officially separated. Right afterwards, Obama Sr. returned into Kenya. 6 months after, Barack was created. Obama studied at Occidental College. Then he moved to Columbia University at nyc, graduating with a degree in political science in 1983. Obama transferred to Chicago after employed in the industry industry for a couple of decades. Additionally, he also worked at also the Altgeld Gardens communities and the Roseland about the Southside as a neighborhood organizer for citizens. From Indonesia, Dunham wed LO-LO Soetoro back in 1965. The family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Maya Soetoro Ng, Obama's halfsister, had been created in 1970. Incidents in Indonesia abandoned Dunham fearful for education and her child's security so Obama was shipped back to live with his grand parents. Halfsister along with his mum later combined them.
He met with their discussion Tribe and law professor Laurence Tribe, that whenever Obama asked to join his team '' the professor agreed. "the greater he'd in Harvard Law School and the longer he impressed people, the more obvious it had been that he may have had any such thing, said Professor Tribe at a 2012 interview using front-line, "however it had been clear that he wished to really make a huge difference for people, to communities." It was that and that Obama joined the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin he met with a lawyer who has been delegated for his own advisor, Michelle Robinson. Shortly afterwards, the couple began communicating. Back in February 1990, Obama has been chosen the first African American editor of this Harvard Law Review. He also graduated magna cum laude from 1991 from Harvard Law.
Instruction He helped organize voter registration drives -- also also taught law at the University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004 as a lecturer and as a professor. Law Career He cried in basketball and graduated from 1979 with honors while Obama registered in the Punahou Academy. As one of just three students at the faculty, Obama became what it's designed to be African American and alert to racism. He explained how he fought to get back together societal perceptions of his multi racial legacy with their or her own awareness of self: "I detected that there is nothing similar to me personally at the Sears, Roebuck xmas catalogue...and that Santa was a white man," he also wrote. "I moved in to the toilet and stood in the front of the mirror together with all of my perceptions and limbs apparently undamaged, appearing because I'd always appeared and wondered whether something had been wrong with me personally."
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Giving the Machine Guns Wings
Air combat came of age during World War I with the invention of devices that allowed fighter pilots to “point and shoot”. On April 1, 1915, ...
Daily Quiz for March 31, 2018
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Aviation History Review: Hard and Soft Ware
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Aviation History Book Review: Facing the Heat Barrier
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Aviation History Book Review: Conquistadors of the Sky
Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America by Dan Hagedorn, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2008, $39.95. It...
Aviation History Book Review: A Dawn Like Thunder
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Aviation History Book Review: Memphis Belle
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Misty Fast FACs
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Into the Air- Aviation of North America
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The Incredible ‘Winkle’ Brown
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Sun Setters Over Japan
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Custer’s Channel Wing
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Constellation Restoration
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One Small Step
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Spirit of Texas: Mission Accomplished
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Aviation History Briefing- July 2009
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Aviation History Review: Yankee Air Pirate
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Aviation History Book Review: West With the Night
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Aviation History Review: Wings of Defeat
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Aviation History Book Review: IL-2 Shturmovik Guards
IL-2 Shturmovik Guards Units of World War 2 by Oleg Rastrenin, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England, 2008, $22.95. World War II’s most-produce...
Aviation History Book Review: Luftwaffe Colours
Luftwaffe Colours, 1935-1945 by Michael Ullmann, Hikoki Publications, Manchester, UK, 2008, $59.95. Books dealing with German aircraft camou...
Aviation History Book Reviews: Racing for the Gold and Aviation Visionary
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Aviation History Book Review: A Dream of Pilots
A Dream of Pilots by Philip Handleman, illustrated by Craig Kodera, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, La., 2009, $14.95. Attention parents...
Aviation History Book Review: Secret Pusher Fighters
American Secret Pusher Fighters of World War II: XP-54, XP-55, AND XP-56 by Gerald H. Balzer, Specialty Press, North Branch, Minn., 2008, $3...
Tombs of Memory
The cultured French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, is steeped in history—the more recent of which residents would rather forget The...
Daily Quiz for March 30, 2018
After an arduous, exhausting, multi-generational fight of over seventy years, American women won the right to vote with the passage of the n...
Aviation History Book Review: Contrails Over the Mojave
Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Fighter Testing at Edwards Air Force Base by George J. Marrett, Naval Institute Press, Anna...
First Blood in Korean Skies
In a brief but eventful combat career, the F-82 Twin Mustang proved its worth over Korea. By early 1945 it seemed obvious to the Allies that...
Allied Ace of Aces: René Fonck
‘He is a tiresome braggart, and even a bore, but in the air, a slashing rapier,’ wrote Claude Haegelen of squadron mate René Fonck—and he wa...
Two Electras in Search of Howland Island
Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanish, another woman flier set out to retrace her unfinished journey. The Lockheed Model 10 Electra circl...
The Magnificent Merlin
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Barling Bomber
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Corsair!
American Society of Aviation Artists 2008 Award of Distinction winner. The clean, distinctive lines of Jack Fellows’ award- winning painting...
Recce Phantom Restored
The Nebraska Air National Guard reclaims an RF-4C, preserving its own history. For many of the men in the Nebraska Air National Guard who fl...
Herman the German
Master engineer Gerhard Neumann helped keep the Tigers flying and enabled the Allies to evaluate the first captured Japanese Zero. He was an...
Aviation History Briefing- September 2009
Scrapyard Spitfire There are more Spitfires flying today than have been airworthy since the early 1950s: at least 50, some sources say, with...
Aviation History Review: DCS- Black Shark
Can a flight sim offer too much detail, even for dedicated players? If it seems like it’s been a while since a meaty technical helicopter si...
Aviation History Book Review: We
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Aviation History Book Review: The Spitfire Smiths
The Spitfire Smiths: A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms by Christopher Shores, Grub Street, London, 2008, $30. Canadian brothers Rod and Jer...
Aviation History Book Review: Red Sky, Black Death
Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot’s Memoir of the Eastern Front by Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, Slavica, Bloomington, Ill., 2009, $29....
Aviation History Book Review: Technical & Operational History
A Technical & Operational History of the Liberty Engine: Tanks, Ships, and Aircraft 1917-1960 by Robert J. Neal, Specialty Press, 2009, ...
Aviation History Book Review: Second to None
Second to None: The History of the 368th Fighter Group by Dr. Timothy M. Grace, http://bit.ly/2GUJvAu, $40. Every military unit should have ...
Aviation History Book Review: The Road to Big Week
The Road to Big Week by Eric Hammel, Pacifica Military History, Pacifica, Calif., 2009, $32.95. In his excellent new book, Eric Hammel maint...
Aviation History Book Review: Nachtjagd War Diaries
Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, Volume I, September 1939- March 1944; Volume II...
Tin Triangle Tales
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Off to Oz- Adventurous Aviators
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Operation Mallory Major
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Stearman’s Biplane Beauties
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Building a Better Flying Saucer
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Flying Fort Gets a Facelift
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Devil in the Dark
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Aviation History Briefing- November 2009
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Daily Quiz for March 29, 2018
Before Harriet Beecher Stowe became America’s favorite female novelist with the release of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, this author held that ...
Wild West DVD Review: How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won three-disc special,Warner Home Video, 2008, 164 minutes, $29.98. Warner Bros. created this epic in 1962 for Cinerama, a...
Wild West Book Review: A Remarkable Curiosity
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Wild West Book Review: Massacre at Bear River
Massacre at Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten by Rod Miller, Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 2008, $18.95. On January 29, 1863, near presen...
Wild West Book Review: The Wild West Catalog
The Wild West Catalog by Bruce Wexler, Running Press, Philadelphia, 2008, $19.95. In trying to address every aspect of the West in 256 pages...
Wild West Book Review: Navigating the Missouri
Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819–1935 by William E. Lass, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008, $45. William Las...
Wild West Book Reviews: Let Them Eat Grass
Let Them Eat Grass: The 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota; Volume One: Smoke by John Koblas, North Star Press of St. Cloud Inc., 2006, $16.9...
Wild West Book Review: The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory
The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival by J. Diane Pearson, University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, $34.95. When Chief Joseph...
Wild West Book Review: Icons of the American West
Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley edited by Gordon Morris Bakken, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2008, $175. No...
Sharps Carbines Were a Sure Bet At the 1872 Battle of Poker Flat
Although only single shot, they proved rugged and accurate. In 1870 an officer inspecting the 2nd U.S. Cavalry at Fort Ellis, Montana Territ...
The Buffalo Bill Museum Celebrates the Showman
It’s at the heart of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. When asked how many dime novels are in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center collectio...
Ghost Town: Tuscarora, Nevada
In 1867 a prospecting party including brothers Steve and John Beard discovered gold 6,200 feet above sea level in the Goose Creek range of n...
The Hybrid Beast That Built the West
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Charley Nebo: The Forrest Gump of the Old West
Charley Nebo had a knack for showing up where the action was—driving Longhorns for Charles Goodnight, tending cattle for John Chisum, hobnob...
Monsters of the Plains
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Living the Legend: Super Scout Buffalo Bill
Cody built his reputation as a chief scout, portrayed himself onstage, returned to the frontier to lift ‘the first scalp for Custer’ and the...
Skin and Bones: The Plains Buffalo Trades Flourished
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The Death of Crazy Horse: Fables and Forensics
Just who killed the Lakota fighting man remains in dispute. The scenario is familiar: Crazy Horse, greatest war chief of the Lakota Nation, ...
Buffalo Jones Killed Many Buffalo, But Then Became a Preservationist
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With Two Well-Placed Shots, Ludwick Put Outlaws on Notice
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Interview: Sandra K. Sagala Treads the Boards With ‘First-class Star’ Buffalo Bill
Before creating his own Wild West, Cody portrayed himself onstage. Just about every student of history knows that William F. Cody brought th...
The Museum of the Mountain Man Treads in the Footsteps of Green River Trappers
Six fur trade rendezvous were held near present-day Pinedale. The Green River springs from the Wind River Range along the Continental Divide...
Ghost Town: South Pass City, Wyoming
Prospectors were panning gold from the Sweetwater near South Pass (in present-day Wyoming) as early as 1842, but the first real rush came in...
Chasing the Elusive Joaquín Murrieta
No matter how many murders and robberies he actually committed, California’s most notorious bandit cast a wide shadow on the gold rush. But ...
The Search for the Captives of Elm Creek
A fall Indian raid in frontier Texas was as dramatic as any in fiction, but no more gripping than the odyssey of the female captives and the...
Abraham Lincoln Looks West
Abraham Lincoln stood atop a hill outside Council Bluffs, Iowa, looking west. The broad Missouri River valley stretched from north to south ...
Audiobook Review: Vice Capades–Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
A witty yet sobering look at how fake piety confers power by peddling bias. Vice Capades implores listeners to always question the motives o...
Wells Fargo’s Treasure Box Was Full of California Gold
The company trafficked in gold dust and mail. When Wells Fargo (Wells, Fargo and Company) established its express and banking business in th...
Longtime Prisoner Geronimo Said He Found Christianity
Was his conversion a sham or a bid to find hope late in life? The news was a stunner: Geronimo had converted to Christianity. The story made...
From Spitfires to Saberjets: The Making of an Ace
It took him 10 years and two wars, but Canadian fighter pilot Omer Levesque finally got his fifth victory in the skies over Korea. On March ...
Baron Walter von Richthofen: The Red Baron’s American Uncle
He invested in cattle, beer and milk in Denver, but his legacy is a castle. Getting rich or going broke can be a simple matter of timing. Th...
The Newly Formed California Rangers Had a Mission: Get Murrieta
They did deliver a head, but was it the right one? When gold was first discovered in California, more foreigners than Americans worked the c...
Announcing! The 2018 Thomas Fleming Awards for Outstanding Military History Writing
“Teddy,” my father once said to me, “become a lawyer, and I guarantee you’ll make a million bucks by the time you’re thirty. I remember look...
Daily Quiz for March 28, 2018
This first lady added the Easter Bunny (a White House staffer in costume) to the Easter Egg Roll guest list and he has since attended each o...
Wild West Book Review: Custer Into the West
Custer Into the West: With the Journal and Maps of Lieutenant Henry Jackson by Jeff Broome, Upton & Sons Publishers, El Segundo, Calif.,...
Wild West Book Review: Drawing Battle Lines
Drawing Battle Lines: The Map Testimony of Custer’s Last Fight by Michael N. Donahue, Upton and Sons, El Segundo, Calif., 2008, $150 for lim...
Wild West Book Review: Stricken Field
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 by Jerome A. Greene, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008, $34.95. Anyone who has set f...
Wild West Book Review: Custer and His Times
Custer and His Times, Book Five edited by John P. Hart, The Little Big Horn Associates, Inc., www.thelbha.org, 2008, $47.95 for members, $52...
Wild West Book Review: Towers of Gold
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Wild West Book Review: Shadows at Dawn
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Wild West Book Review: Famous Firearms of the Old West
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Smith & Wesson’s Model No. 2 Was the First Large-Caliber Cartridge Revolver
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The Autry Center Showcases Its Grand Collection of Indian Artifacts
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Ghost Town: Ironton, Colorado
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Monumental Vision
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The Man Who Arrested Doc Holliday
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Reckoning the West at the Centennial
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Squaring Custer’s Triangle
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Bear Butte, Sacred to Cheyennes and Lakotas, Looms Near the Black Hills
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The Ringo Family of Missouri Traveled a Hard-Luck Trail
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Lawman Johnny Hudgens Proved Fearless During a May Day Shootout in Jerome
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Wild West Review: The Rules With No Name
The Rules With No Name by Bryan Ansell, Foundry Publications, Nottingham, U.K., 2008, $84. This tabletop game (no electronics required) cen...
Wild West Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and El Dorado
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Wild West DVD Review: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: The Complete Season One, 1955–1956 2009, Infinity Entertainment Group and Falcon Picture Group, five dis...
Wild West DVD Review: Deadwood
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Wild West Book Review: Saddling Up Anyway
Saddling Up Anyway: The Dangerous Lives of Old-time Cowboys by Patrick Dearen, Taylor Trade, Lanham, Md., 2006, $22.95. Now and again a bo...
Battle of Fort Pillow
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Capt. Bobby Lain: Leadership in the Midst of Tragedy
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Trailside – Fields of Fire: Route 50 in Bucolic Virginia
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Flitfire Flies Again
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Reviews | Fear vs. Freedom
The brown-shirted stormtroopers of the Sturmabteilungen (SA) were one of the most visible and feared symbols of Nazism before and immediatel...
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Daily Quiz for March 27, 2018
The inscription on this historic figure’s tombstone reads” “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” The post D...
Wild West Book Review: Historic Photos of Texas Lawmen
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Wild West Book Review: The Sundance Kid
The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh by Donna B. Ernst, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2009, $29.95. The names But...
Wild West Book Review: Crooked River Country
Crooked River Country: Wranglers, Rogues and Barons by David Braly, Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2007, $24.95. Central Oregon...
Wild West Book Review: Agnes Lake Hickok
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend by Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2009, $29.95...
Wild West Book Review: Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed
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Wild West Book Review: Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man by Barton H. Barbour, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2009, $26.95. Comanche Indians cut sh...
Daniel Moore Challenged the Big Boys With a Number of Reliable Handguns
His seven-shooter was popular but short-lived. Stories and anecdotes about Old West gunplay almost always mention one of the big three manuf...
Arabia Steamboat Museum Captures Life on the Missouri in 1856
Showcases sunken treasures, harvested from a farmer’s field. Nineteenth-century pioneers quipped that the big Western rivers were “too thick...
Ghost Town: Tinton, South Dakota
Tinton is tucked in the rugged recesses of Spearfish Canyon, 13 miles due east of Deadwood. Its crumbling edifices belie a remarkably resili...
Here Be Dragons
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Westering Walker
Fur trader and explorer Joe Walker kept up his family’s wandering tradition and contributed mightily to U.S. expansion to the ‘far coast’. A...
The Search for Jessie Evans
The noted outlaw and Lincoln County War player seemingly rode off the pages of history in 1882. But recent research provides clues to his tr...
Bat Masterson, Paladin of the Plains
The legendary lawman and gambler kept moving to answer the call, whether it came from the scales of frontier justice or the mouths of friend...
Frontier Joints Thought Inside the Box To Woo Pleasure-Seeking Clientele
Box houses provided drinks, theater and more private pursuits. A “box house” of 19th-century frontier repute was not a house at all. Nor was...
After Cochise Made Peace with the Army, He Made a Half Dozen Visits to Fort Bowie
The Apache leader wanted to show his good intentions. No figure offered more violent or effective resistance to white settlement of Arizona ...
Frontiersman Andy Hall Served Major Powell and Wells Fargo
After exploring the Grand Canyon, he worked in Arizona. “I have not time to write to you now,” young Andy Hall scribbled to his mother from ...
Arkansas Tom, the Doolin Gang’s ‘Baddest Bad Man,’ Was a Survivor
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Wild West DVD Review: We Shall Remain
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Wild West Book Review: Red Light Women
Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains by Jan MacKell, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2009, $34.95. Coloradan author Jan MacKe...
Wild West Book Review: Pistols, Petticoats & Poker
Pistols, Petticoats & Poker: The Real Lottie Deno by Jan Devereaux, High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, N.M., 2009, $25. It is human natur...
Wild West Book Review: The Sutton-Taylor Feud
The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas by Chuck Parsons, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2009, $24.95. The longe...
Wild West Book Review: Soldiers West
Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009, $34...
Wild West Book Review: Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains by Douglas C. McChristian, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Norman, Okla., 2009, $45. Fort Lar...
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 Was Extremely Advanced for Its Day
Hunters, frontiersmen and a Mormon scion favored it. Buffalo runners in the waning days of the great hunts, Rocky Mountain outdoorsmen and a...
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum Marks 40 Years of Showcasing Lawmen
Waco is the place to go for Ranger memorabilia. Texas and Rangers go together like Waco and Dr. Pepper or, if that’s not your drink, Waco an...
Ghost Town: Canyon Diablo, Arizona
In 1880 the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad began constructing a bridge over 250-foot-deep Canyon Diablo, midway between Winslow and Flagsta...
Giants in the Land
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The Poet Bandit of Arizona Territory
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Wild and Woolly War of Words
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Bank Cashiers Sometimes Dealt With Unauthorized Withdrawals
Jesse James tested the mettle of Joseph Heywood. As the U.S. banking system took form during and after the Civil War, the job to which every...
Two Strong Lakota Leaders Shared the Name ‘He Dog’
Historians have long confused their biographies. He Dog was an Oglala Sioux leader. He Dog was a Brulé Sioux leader. Both statements are tru...
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