Tobin achieved renown in 1863 by tracking down and killing the serial-killing ‘Bloody Espinosas’ in what today is central Colorado
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Jimi Hendrix Pretended to Be Gay to Get Out of the Army
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Documenting the Allies’ Grueling March North Through Italy and France
Carl Chamberlain went to war with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 334th Quartermaster Supply Depot Company—and returned with hundreds of photos.
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Tin Pan Alley: Where America’s Recording Industry Was Born
Where the makers of the American
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EXCLUSIVE: Read and Hear Kit Carson III Describe the Fate of the Serial-Killing Espinosas
In 1968 the grandson of famed frontiersmen Kit Carson and Tom Tobin shared what he’d been told about the latter’s tense 1863 hunt for the murderous Espinosas
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The ‘Nazi War Machine’ Wasn’t Actually That Mechanized
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A C-47 Crashed in Germany in 1945—Now Locals Have Erected a Memorial
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‘On Bloody Sunday’ Book Review: Firsthand Memories From Catholic and IRA Participants
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This Man Hunted Down the First Known Serial Killers Out West
Colorado Territory tracker Tom Tobin may not have worn a white hat, but he answered the call to duty in 1863 and hunted down the ‘Bloody Espinosas.’