This historic figure’s signature formed a triangle.
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Daily Quiz for October 7, 2013
This signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence established the first free medical clinic in the United States.
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Daily Quiz for October 6, 2013
In the 19th century, a small horse-drawn omnibus with side seats and a back entrance was called this.
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Daily Quiz for October 5, 2013
This man is sometimes called the "Father of the Railroad."
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Daily Quiz for October 4, 2013
This man was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Daily Quiz for October 3, 2013
Richard Gatling gave this as the reason he invented the Gatling gun.
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Daily Quiz for October 2, 2013
The Jacob’s staff developed in the 1300s was used for this.
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Gary Ernest Smith – Art of the West
Minimalist Gary Ernest Smith maximizes the graphic potential of Billy the Kid’s 1881 escape from New Mexico Territory’s Lincoln County Courthouse.
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Letter From Wild West – December 2013
Arguments and tasteless wordplay aside, it was cannibalism that set apart the 1846–47 Donner Party as one of the worst tragedies on the 19th-century pioneer trail.
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Murder, Mobs and the Marlow Brothers
Texas lawmen had orders to transfer four of the Marlow brothers in chains, but all hell broke loose when vigilantes appeared—a standoff depicted in “The Sons of Katie Elder”