Russia did not join the First Coalition against revolutionary France because of events in this country.
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Amon Carter Museum: Art of the West
Since 1961 the Fort Worth museum has showcased the works of Remington, Russell and other legends of Western art.
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‘The Bloody Benders’: America’s First Serial-Killer Family
The odd Kansas foursome ran an inn that proved deadly to travelers for years before suspicious neighbors did some digging in the family’s apple orchard and learned the gruesome facts
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Interview: Paul Hedren / Historian
In his new book After Custer, Paul Hedren draws on his extensive knowledge of the Great Sioux War to paint a picture of changing life on the Prairie in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
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Book Review: After Custer, by Paul L. Hedren
Paul L. Hedren shares his unprecedented knowledge of the Great Sioux War in After Custer, an account of the rapid changes on the Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
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Book Review: Custer’s Best, by Colonel French L. MacLean
In Custer’s Best, U.S. Army veteran Colonel French L. MacLean relates the history of 7th U.S. Cavalry Company M, one of a dozen companies that followed George Custer to the Little Bighorn in June 1876 and fought atop Reno Hill.
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Book Review: Deep Trails in the Old West / A Frontier Memoir
The memoir Deep Trails in the Old West highlights Welsh-born ranch hand Frank Clifford, a peripheral player in the dramatic events that rocked frontier New Mexico.
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Book Review: Judge William H. Stilwell / Bench and Bar in Arizona Territory
Roy Young highlights Arizona Territory Judge William H. Stilwell in this biography, the first volume of a trilogy about the Stilwell family in the Wild West.
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DVD Review: Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938
The National Film Preservation Foundation takes a look at the “real West” that followed and overlapped the real West in its latest “Treasures” release “The West, 1898-1938.”
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Movie Review: Blackthorn
A what-if drama centered on Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, “Blackthorn” isn’t a bad film, but it is a strange film.