The Patent Act was passed in United States in this year.
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Book Review: The Old Chisholm Trail
Wayne Ludwig finally addresses a longstanding controversy over the name and route of the legendary trail
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Movie Review: The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers is an entertaining blend of Western tropes and more unusual themes and scenes
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Book Review: The Chisholm Trail
James Sherow covers the stockmen, the drovers and everyone and everything else connected to the 19th-century cattle trade
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Book Review: The Bonanza King
Gregory Crouch profiles a man who plumbed unimaginable riches from the Comstock Lode and became one of the four famed “Bonanza Kings”
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Book Review: ‘I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s Tail’ / The Victorio Campaign, 1879
Robert Watt suggests Victorio was too successful, so much so as to cast embarrassing reflections on the U.S. Army.
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What We Know About the Ol’ Chisholm Trail
In song and legend the iconic trail ran unbroken from Texas into Kansas, but its exact route and very name have been called into question
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The Many Wives of Ned Buntline
The 19th-century dime novelist loved to stretch the truth and was also untrue to the ladies who loved him
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Daily Quiz for November 24, 2018
Trajan’s Column records the Emperor Trajan’s military success over this area.
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Interview: Steve Friesen / Buffalo Bill biographer
Steve Friesen no longer directs the Buffalo Bill Museum, but he’s still following in Cody’s tracks.