Richard Burrill’s latest book about Ishi, “Last of the Yahi,” describes a 1914 anthropological trek up into the famed “rediscovered” Indian’s ancestral California lands.
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Book Review: The Death Row All Stars, by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss
The strange, short-lived career of a team of baseball-playing convicts from the Wyoming State Penitentiary is the subject of the latest book from writing team Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss.
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Book Review: Stagecoach Robberies in California, by R. Michael Wilson
Retired law enforcement officer R. Michael Wilson’s latest crime volume catalogs all known stagecoach robberies in wild and woolly California.
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Film Review: John Wayne / The Epic Collection
The Epic Collection features 40 John Wayne films, including 22 of his Western classics, though it leaves notable gaps in his filmography.
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Why weren’t bombs used on Japanese Bunkers at Sugar Loaf Hill?
The battle for Sugar Loaf Hill seemed like a awful waste of men. Why wasn’t […]
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Daily Quiz for November 25, 2014
Belle Starr, notorious female outlaw, is rumored to have had a child who was fathered by this famous bandit.
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Daily Quiz for November 24, 2014
On May 1, 1931, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C., to light this landmark, officially opening it to the public.
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Daily Quiz for November 23, 2014
English Army surgeon Dr. Richard Schuckburgh is often credited with writing the words this popular American song.
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Daily Quiz for November 22, 2014
This president’s grandson, who was born in the White House, went on to become the chief administrative officer (dean) of the Washington National Cathedral.
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Daily Quiz for November 21, 2014
The Battle of Leipzig, Oct. 16-19, 1813, is also called this.