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Era Archives:Modern Era

“Wholesale Murder”: What People Saw at the Wounded Knee Massacre

by Jim Foral9/27/20182/27/2023

Mystery Ship: Can You Identify This Multi-Use Combat Airplane?

by Jon Guttman9/27/20187/7/2022

The First Assassination Attempt on Martin Luther King Jr.

by Patrick Parr9/27/20183/31/2024

When Dodge City Hosted a Mexican Bullfight to Celebrate the Fourth

by J.R. Sanders9/26/20187/7/2022

She Was a Daisey in Oklahoma Territory

by Maria DeLong9/26/20182/12/2019

Adolf Galland: The Luftwaffe’s Fighter General

by Barrett Tillman9/21/20187/18/2022

Wild West Book Review: Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment

by Jon Guttman9/20/2018

Wild West Book Review: Tascosa

by Johnny D. Boggs9/20/2018
Colt revolver, side view, 1878.

Dead Outlaw Found Holding a ‘Frontier’ in His Death Grip

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Christmas Frontier-Style

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