Alexander Hamilton Stephens is best known as this.
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The Originial Reality Show: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Extravaganza
Buffalo Bill’s traveling circus of real-life cowboys and Indians revived the mythical West for audiences that, for the most part, had never experienced it. But the story of glorious conquest was a familiar one.
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How the West was Spun: Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill Cody heralded the closing of the frontier by reassuring Americans that they would never be too civilized to beat the braves and bullies of the world at their own game.
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Daily Quiz for August 4, 2008
This railroad company started the ambitious, unprecedented project of building a railway from California through the Sierra Nevada.
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Daily Quiz for August 3, 2008
This Spanish soldier founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1534.
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Daily Quiz for August 2, 2008
This Spanish vessel was the first western ship to anchor in present-day San Francisco harbor in 1775:
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‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
“Don’t Give Up the Ship!” Despite his crew’s humiliating surrender to HMS Shannon, the exhortation of USS Chesapeake’s dying captain, James Lawrence, became a rallying cry of the War of 1812.
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Daily Quiz for July 31, 2008
The Texans who fought for America in the Mexican War called themselves the Texas Rangers, but the Mexicans called the Texans this: