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Shavetail

Shavetail

Shavetail The 17th century term “Lingo” was rooted in lingua, Latin for “tongue.”  One of its definitions—“the vocabulary of a special subject or...

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True Grit On Screen

True Grit On Screen

True Grit, the 1968 Charles Portis novel about a dissolute deputy U.S. marshal and a precocious teenage girl, was made into movies on two occasions....

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Life In A Soddy

Life In A Soddy

When the farmers got west of the 100th meridian they found themselves in short grass country where the grasses were gramma, needle and buffalo. The...

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Jeff Kidder: Arizona Ranger

Jeff Kidder: Arizona Ranger

The Arizona Rangers were established as a territorial law enforcement agency in 1901 to curb the outlawry that was rampart in Arizona’s rural...

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