Tom Browning’s oil The Dawn of a New Day won the Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2009 Prix de West art show and sale in Oklahoma City.
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Interview: Mark Lee Gardner / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Mark Lee Gardner, author, historian and general renaissance man of the West, has written a dual biography of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
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Letter from Wild West – June 2010
One-hundred thirty-four years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, historians continue to debate just who was to blame for the massacre of the 7th Cavalry. Custer? Reno? Benteen? How about the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne?
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What’s the greatest man-made structure in the world?
What’s the greatest man-made structure in the world?
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Daily Quiz for April 2, 2010
Reportedly, this Old West outlaw’s last words were, "Boys, the world’s spinning around."
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Weapons of World War II
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Letter from American History – June 2010
Author Michael Kranish explores how the experience of keeping just hours ahead of capture by the British haunted Thomas Jefferson down the decades.
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Barnstorming Aces Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean
Baseball’s two greatest pitchers, Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean, barnstormed their way across the major league color line.
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Debunking Boston Tea Party Myths
The Boston Tea Party wasn’t about higher taxes. It was America’s first response to too big to fail.