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Confederates and Comancheros book jacket

Book Review: Confederates and Comancheros / Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

by Jon Guttman4/27/20226/13/2024
Tom Tobin around the time he tracked the Bloody Espinosas

Man Hunter Tom Tobin Was Kit Carson III’s ‘Other’ Celebrated Grandfather

by Gregory Lalire4/25/20225/4/2022
Kit Carson III, grandson of Kit Carson

EXCLUSIVE: Read and Hear Kit Carson III Describe the Fate of the Serial-Killing Espinosas

by Robert Leonetti and Daniel Sanchez-Leonetti4/21/20225/4/2022
uss-olympia

5 Endangered Floating Museums: Saving the ‘Tin Cans’

by Claire Barrett4/21/20223/15/2024
Frontiersman Tom Tobin poses with his Hawken rifle

This Man Hunted Down the First Known Serial Killers Out West

by Daniel Sanchez-Leonetti4/21/20225/5/2022

Why Do British Soldiers Wear Cap Badges, And What Do They Mean?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher4/20/20224/22/2022

An Ohio English Teacher Went to Fight in the Civil War and Got His First True Taste of Battle

by James R. Jewell4/14/20224/24/2022
Soldiers of Company H of the 7th New Jersey Infantry

How an Obscure Photograph Triggered a Search for the Fate of 5 Union Soldiers

by Dan Casella4/13/20225/10/2022

At Fort Sumter, This Bizarre, Floating Contraption Helped Start the Civil War

by Mark Carlson4/12/20224/12/2022
1883 TV Series Poster

‘1883’ TV Series Review: The Prequel to Yellowstone Is Set in the Very Wild West

by Gregory Lalire4/9/20225/2/2022

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