The lanky lawman who shot Billy the Kid has never been half as understood or appreciated as the young outlaw with whom he is forever linked.
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Wild West Book Review: The Assassination of Hole in the Day
The Assassination of Hole in the Day by Anton Treuer, Borealis Books, St. Paul, […]
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Supersonic Revolution
American engineers had to solve a number of design problems before the U.S. could exploit supersonic flight.
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Insight Confederate Window: The Southern Bivouac Gave Western Theater Confederates Their Due
Former Confederates wrote accounts of their wartime experiences for various magazines and newspapers including The Southern Bivouac.
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Haunted Hotels of the West
Writer-photographer Bob Stinson, an aficionado of the Wild West and a believer in paranormal […]
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Frontier Hero or Murderous Outlaw—Who Was the Real Wyatt Earp?
New evidence is revealing a more complicated portrait of the famous lawman.
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The Evacuation of Kham Duc
The final hours of a remote outpost—called a “Khe Sanh in reverse”—were heroic ones
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Impossible Heights: The Alaskan Miners Who Conquered Mount McKinley
The Sourdough Expedition was a sweet success—sort of. Following his departure from Fairbanks, Alaska, […]
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One of Hitler’s Top Test Pilots Was a Woman Who Once Flew a Helicopter — Indoors
Hanna Reitsch would set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland.
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Snowflake Savant
An obsessive Vermont naturalist armed with a camera and microscope revealed that every feathery […]