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Saddle scabbards for rifles seem to have three locations:
Saddle scabbards for rifles seem to have three locations: out of the back, straight up on the front and slanted forward on the front. Is the...
Did Wyatt Earp have any children?
Did Wyatt Earp have any children? William T. Jewell Glasgow, Kentucky Earp didn’t have any children with his three wives. Author and...
What hat styles were popular with the early Texas Rangers?
What hat styles were popular with the early Texas Rangers? Sgt. Howard K. Williams, USAF Deer Park, Texas Bob Stevens, an authority on the...
A Lot of Work for Two Cents
Early in June 1880, census enumerator Charles M. Cantrell came to dwelling number 14 on his list in Davidson County, Tennessee. Cantrell wrote down...
Overnight Success When Hauling
Overnight Success When Hauling Cross-Country With the shooting horse season heading into full swing, the open road beckons us with cross country...
McKinney Meets His Maker
April 19, 1903 Acting on a tip, a 10-man posse surrounds the Bakersfield, California, establishment known as the Joss House, a combination meeting...
A Mirror with a Memory
An Indian with his thick, long braids wrapped in otter fur stands beside an oil portrait of a woman and a baby. Who was this man? What had happened...
General Palmer’s Baby Railroad
In 1870, a former Union Army general named William Palmer supervised construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway into Denver, Colorado. The arrival...
Cherokee Nation’s Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Last March 6, a direct descendant of Sequoyah, the mayor of Tahlequah and the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation were among those who came...
Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains
Douglas McChristian spent more than two decades as a National Park Service historian and administrator, and he has shared his knowledge in a number...
The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900
Noted researcher/writer Robert Wooster reaches some of those same conclusions in The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the...