Few frontiersmen could hope to die as dramatically as Crockett at the Alamo or […]
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The Mysterious Morgan Earp
Not nearly as well known as Wyatt or even Virgil, Morgan wandered away from his famous brothers only a little bit. He was standing right beside them amid the Tombstone action and controversy.
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Though Bullwhackers Often Swore at Oxen, The Brawny Beasts Were Good for Business
They even played nice for a man without vice. John Bratt didn’t drink, smoke, […]
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Four Brave Black Seminole Indian Scouts Earned the Medal of Honor in the 1870s
Three did so in one daring fight in Texas.
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The Well-off Fort Worth Madam Who Wasn’t Really Etta Place
Eunice Gray had her own wild times without the Wild Bunch. In the early […]
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The Hotheaded Killin’ Killians Settled Most Disputes, for Better or Worse, with Firearms
‘Old Man’ Cy Killian and sons were cut from the same cloth. A long-running […]
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The “Good” Conscientious Objector Lew Ayres
For Hollywood movie star Lew Ayres, standing on pacifistic principles proved to be its own kind of fight
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How American Secrecy Stopped a Japanese Terror Attack… From Balloons
As Japanese terror weapons descended through American skies, the U.S. government struggled to balance secrecy with public safety
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Battle Films: Meaning Out of Nihilism
2001’s “The Grey Zone” examines how far humans are willing to go to survive
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: Operatives Take On Nazi Forces in Norway
American and Norwegian operatives dropped into occupied Norway on a mission of sabotage