The video about Anne Frank was over— part of a special exhibit at Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico—when my son told me, “Those Nazis were really mean.” I agreed. “Are they going to come to New Mexico?” “No,” I told him. “But the next time you talk to Grandpa, you thank him because he joined the Navy when he was young to help stop those Nazis.” Jack, then five, promptly asked, “Then why wasn’t Grandpa in that movie, Daddy?” Jack is often my traveling
July 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
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- How I Ruined My Kids for History
- American West: Then & Now
- What do they use in guns to make them smoke after they’re fired?
- How can I tell original brothel tokens from replicas?
- What is the title of the song sung by the villagers in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch?
- Who was Will McLaury, who was gunned down in Tombstone?
- What Western features an outlaw gang in Seymour, Indiana.
- 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
- Wichita, Kansas
- Vince Murray
- Navajo Country on Horseback
- The Texas Camel Corps Camel Treks
- Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile
- Filming the Oregon Trail
- Movie Magic Muzzleloaders
- Keep Up the Fight
- Celebrating July Fourth
- Watch Those Splinters!
- Preservation: Where the Bodies are Buried
- Popular Poppies
- Irate Ira Nails the McClellands!
- Where’s the Beef?