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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 really lit the fuse of the Civil War.  The measure allowed citizens in those territories to decide whether or not to...

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Buried Alive

Buried Alive

The mining community of Alta, Utah, has the dubious distinction of being among the top in the world for suffering catastrophic avalanches. The town...

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George Ruffner’s Winning Hand

George Ruffner’s Winning Hand

George Ruffner arrived in Prescott in 1882 and in the years that followed was a cowboy, freighter, rancher and in 1894 he was elected Sheriff of...

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The Croquet Kid

The Croquet Kid

An earthquake hit the Old West field in the fall of 2015. And a staid, relatively genial and, for the most part, collegial area of study was dragged...

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Bamboozler Anthony Blum

Bamboozler Anthony Blum

The mining towns of the West had an oversupply of con artists in search of suckers. After two years of delays, a shameless scoundrel named Anthony...

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The Walker Party Unraveled

The Walker Party Unraveled

Pieter Burggraaf’s The Walker Party: The Revised Story, Across New Mexico and Arizona Territories and up the Hassayampa River 1861-1863 concerns...

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