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Durango, Colorado

Durango, Colorado

Ferroequinophiles adore Durango. Yes, gold first lured Charles Baker and his prospectors into the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado in 1860,...

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Courage Under Fire

He was born Tzoe of the Canyon Creek clan of the Cibecue Apaches, around 1860, in the piñon-juniper canyon lands below the Mogollon Rim not far from...

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Geronimo!

Geronimo!

October 5, 1881 An outbreak from the Apache Reservation in San Carlos sends fear and shock waves throughout southeastern Arizona as warriors led by...

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Tracks that Speak

Tracks that Speak

Old West novelist and journalist Emerson Hough called the moccasin “one of the most interesting articles of all the Indian gear.” The story told by...

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Rat Pack Troopers

Rat Pack Troopers

In 1962, no one was cooler or hipper than Frank Sinatra. The “Chairman of the Board,” later known as “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” headed a merry-making clan of...

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The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast.  What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?

Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real?

Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real? Jack Humphrey Cameron, Texas The “Dutchman,” like most lost mines in the West, is a huge myth with a little bit of...

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