This was Elvis Presley’s first record.
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America’s Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910
In the summer of 1910, the largest wildfire in U.S. history ravaged the drought-stricken northern Rockies, burning millions of acres of forest and killing scores of people
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Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop
The Tucson Museum of Art honors the art dealer who had a big hand in fostering new Western art
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Charles E. Rankin: Bound to the Western Story
The retired University of Oklahoma Press chief editor isn’t about to ride off into the sunset
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Book Review: “Horses Worn to Mere Shadows”
Robert Watt presents the stirring second volume of his trilogy about Mimbreño Apache Chief Victorio
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Daily Quiz for March 18, 2020
The origins of hearts and minds counter insurgency operations was in this conflict.
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First National World War I Memorial to be Built in Washington, D.C.
As you walk along the Mall in Washington, D.C. you will pass the somber […]
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Riverboat Espionage: How a Confederate Officer Spied From the Decks of a Prison Ship
During the Red River Campaign, a Louisiana major kept notes on a newspaper and eventually slipped them to a Rebel general.
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Fact from Fiction: Joseph McCarthy the Tail Gunner
Joseph McCarthy vaulted to fame as a fearmongering senator. But the war record that got him elected was more fiction than fact.
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Mutiny on the Rhine
Battling rebellious legions under the suspicious gaze of imperial Rome, Germanicus rose to the occasion with a mix of diplomacy and resolve