In March 1905, Seth Bullock, onetime Deadwood sheriff, brought rough-and-ready Westerners to Washington, D.C., to ride in Teddy Roosevelt’s inaugural parade.
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Frontier Editors Go the Way of All Press
Print newsmen were the chroniclers of the the Old West, but now newspapers, too, are fading into history.
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Did Robert E. Lee Doom Himself at Gettysburg?
By blindly relying on poor intelligence and saying far too little to his generals, Lee may have sealed the Rebels’ fate.
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Fighting Words: Inspiration From Annihilation
The Civil War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Some 620,000 troops died, an estimated two-thirds from disease rather than combat. This number represented about 2 percent of the American population, and far more than the casualties of any previous conflict of the United States. It is not surprising, therefore, that several of the terms born during that conflict incorporate the word “dead.”
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Daily Quiz for August 5, 2009
This 18th-century conflict between England and Spain was named for a British seaman’s body part.
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Daily Quiz for August 4, 2009
This Western lawman was briefly a movie maker before returning to the law.
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Daily Quiz for August 3, 2009
In 1923, Russian emigrant Vladimir Zworykin obtained a U.S. patent for an electronic scanning tube that became the basis for broadcasting the moving images that made television possible. He called his device by this name.
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Daily Quiz for August 2, 2009
This American president is sometimes called the Great Engineer.
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Ever Heard a Real Rebel Yell?: August/September 2009
Many Union soldiers wrote about the soul-chilling yells of attacking Confederates. Thanks to the […]