Stephen L. Moore’s companion book to the 2015 History channel miniseries Texas Rising is a concise early history of the “Lone Star State”
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Book Review: Joe
Ron J. Jackson and Lee Spencer White share the little-known story of Joe, the slave of Alamo co-commander William Barret Travis, who survived the 1836 battle
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Book Review: Coronado’s Well-Equipped Army / The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest
Retired U.S. Army officer John Hutchins offers a military perspective of Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado’s 1540–42 entrada into the American Southwest.
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Book Review: Revolt at Taos
Prolific Western historian James Crutchfield turns his attention to the causes and consequences of the New Mexican and Indian insurrection of 1847
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The Kiowa Five
The Kiowa Five (or Six) stepped beyond ledger art to develop a distinctive style that continues to influence Indian artists
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Letter From Wild West: February 2016
Buffalo Bill Cody and Doc Carver banded together to create the Wild West but soon split into rival companies
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Daily Quiz for November 25, 2015
On January 28, 1958 this toy building system was patented by Ole Kirk Christansen.
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Wyatt Earp in Ellsworth?
Does this image back up Wyatt Earp’s old boast of having arrested Ben Thompson in Ellsworth, Kan.?
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First Person: James Leavelle’s Extraordinary Timing
James Leavelle conveyed murder suspect Lee Harvey Oswald as he was shot—he also survived Pearl Harbor.
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Daily Quiz for November 24, 2015
The U.S.S. Barb is the only submarine credited with having destroyed this kind of enemy target.