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Author Archives: David Lauterborn

David Lauterborn is the editor of Wild West and Military History. Over his four-decade publishing career he has shepherded some 300 magazine issues into print and written and posted thousands of articles. Among those are interviews with such historic figures as last surviving World War I doughboy Frank Buckles, Berlin Candy Bomber Gail Halvorsen and last surviving Doolittle Raider Dick Cole.

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A Monument to Defeat…and Victory 

by David Lauterborn8/10/20238/10/2023
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‘One of One Thousand’ 

by David Lauterborn7/11/20237/11/2023
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First Submarine to Sink a Warship 

by David Lauterborn7/11/20237/11/2023
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Staged…

by David Lauterborn6/14/20236/14/2023
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Thanks to Epic Rains, There’s a New Gold Rush in California — But Will Anyone Strike It Rich?

by David Lauterborn5/9/20235/16/2023
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The Search Is Over

by David Lauterborn12/13/20221/18/2023
Travis-Lee-Eller-Traveler-of-the-Plains
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‘Here’s Your Hat,’ Was All This Ugly Outlaw Needed to Hear

by David Lauterborn11/5/202211/11/2022
Ethan and father John Wayne in a still from the 1971 Western Big Jake
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John Wayne’s Son Ethan Remembers the Western Screen Icon

by David Lauterborn9/30/202210/3/2022
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‘Candy Bomber’ Gail Halvorsen, 101, Waged an Ideological Battle for Berlin

by David Lauterborn2/28/202212/27/2022
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‘The Guns of John Moses Browning’ Book Review

by David Lauterborn1/31/20228/16/2022

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