Tybo sits on the eastern slope of the Hot Creek Range in Nye County, […]
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The Model 1878 Colt Was a Double Action That Saw Limited Action in the Wild West
The Colt Model 1878 is often regarded as the “black sheep” of old Colts.
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The Belknap Scandal: Fulcrum to Disaster
In 1876 George Armstrong Custer testified to William Belknap’s trading post corruption. That stopped […]
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Dallas vs. Fort Worth—a Texas-sized Feud
It’s not surprising that Dallas and Fort Worth offer diametrically opposed versions of the […]
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Six Accounts of a Killing
Fort Worth residents Charles Ellis Mitchell and Pinkney Holt were children at the time […]
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Double Killing in Fort Worth
A sheriff and a lawyer had a brief run-in during a town picnic in […]
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Working on the Railroad the Chinese Way
Hired out of the Central Pacific’s desperation for reliable laborers, Chinese men cut and blasted their way across the Sierras with much courage and endurance and little complaint.
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Benteen: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In the endless assessments of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Captain Frederick Benteen […]
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Unsung Charcoal Burners Kept Mining Town Smelters Going
They fueled the Western mining industry.
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The Remorse of Rain-in-the-Face, Whom Whites Saw as a Scary Indian
He liked one 7th Cavalry trooper—and it was not a Custer.