The wolfers and a few hangers-on, 13 men in all, tramped down the defile […]
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Wild West Roundup: April 2015
Duke’s Life Lessons Anyone familiar with John Wayne films knows that the Duke has […]
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Daily Quiz for January 6, 2017
Solitude was the name of this business leader’s Pittsburgh home.
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Daily Quiz for January 5, 2017
Founded in 1867 by former salve Mary Prout, the Independent Order of St. Luke is this.
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Laws, California: A Village Built for a Railroad
Laws, California, was built in anticipation of a railroad— the narrow-gauge Carson & Colorado […]
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Old West Rifles of a Fancier Sort Weren’t Only for Frontier Heroes
Most of the single-shot and repeating rifles recorded in Old West photographs are of […]
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Ghost Town: Vroman, Colorado
Established on Colorado’s southeastern plain around 1891, this Otero County ghost town stands between […]
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Kilroy and the California Cop Killer
Fed up with being shadowed, badman Edward Moore confronted Nevada City lawman William Kilroy, […]
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Stage Fright: The Wickenburg Massacre
In 1871 ambushers struck a California-bound coach in Arizona Territory and murdered six of […]
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The Arikaras: Custer’s 13th Company
Though referred to as ‘scouts,’ even by Lt. Col. George A. Custer, these Indians […]