Matthew Mayo profiles a rogues’ gallery of swindlers, flimflam artists, shysters and other ne’er-do-wells of the Old West.
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Book Review: It Ends Here
Joe Johnston creatively retells the story of Missouri vigilante Edward O’Kelley, the man who shot the man who shot Jesse James
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Book Review: Creating the American West
Derek Everett traces the history of state boundaries and the impact cartography had on the formation of the American West
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Book Review: Bushwhacker Belles
Wild West contributor Larry Wood looks at the women who supported Missouri’s Confederate border raiders during the Bloody Kansas era
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Letter From Wild West: October 2016
Were they soul mates, ill-matched lovers or something in between? Many unanswered questions remain.
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Daily Quiz for July 28, 2016
Policarpa Salvarrieta Rios was executed on November 14, 1817 for her leadership in the freedom movement of this country.
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INTERVIEW: Doug Wicklund / The Gun Whisperer
Over the years Doug Wicklund has earned the nickname “the Gun Whisperer.” And once […]
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The Rise of North Vietnam’s Air Defenses
Rapid mobilization of Communist anti-aircraft guns, missiles and jet fighters provided Hanoi with a potent resistance to U.S. bombers in the early years of the Vietnam War
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The Search for Billy Laney, the Guy on My POW Bracelet
How author Maggie Ruth learned the fate of the MIA on her POW bracelet, and changed her view of Vietnam veterans
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The Flying Banana in Vietnam
Piasecki Helicopter Corp. developed the H-21 as an arctic rescue helicopter, and in Vietnam it flew under less than perfect conditions.