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The Long Haul: Richard Almand’s Longest Mission of WWII
A B-29 radar navigator arrived late in the Pacific theater, but flew a dozen […]
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Film Review: American Experience / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Experience: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 60 minutes, PBS, $24.99. The latest […]
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King Ranch: A Texas Dynasty
Riverboat captain Richard King got hold of some south Texas wilderness and with his […]
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Montana Territory Massacre: Blood on the Snow
Soldiers got the right tribe but the wrong band in 1870 when they attacked […]
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Book Review: The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro
The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro: The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April […]
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Fur Trader Larpenteur Fell in Love with the Frontier — but Found Her to Be a Cruel Mistress
Frenchman Charles Larpenteur survived rabid wolves, hostile
American Indians and ruffian competitors.
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Book Review: The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns
The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns Bradley M. Gottfried, Savas […]
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Book Review: Battle of Big Bethel
Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia J. Michael Cobb, […]
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Firing Joe Hooker
Just days before the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton tasked […]