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A Cement Pudding

A Cement Pudding

"I remember a strawberry festival that featured a huge floating island pudding,” recalled Mrs. Ford, who lived in Canyon City, Oregon, after the...

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A Rope for a Rat

A Rope for a Rat

Two bodies swung from the cottonwood branches in the frigid wind on the night of January 4, 1864. One had a sign pinned to the back of his coat:...

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What are tintypes?

What are tintypes?

What are tintypes? Ben Hodges Everett, Washington Photographic history began in 1839, with the daguerreotype. Other processes, however, had been...

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The Other Las Vegas

The Other Las Vegas

You can argue all day about which Old West town was the roughest, toughest and wildest of them all. Tombstone? Maybe. Dodge City? Entirely possible....

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