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Sacking Lawrence

Sacking Lawrence

The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company. “Are you serious?” I ask. He assures me it’s...

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Arizona Sheriffs

Arizona Sheriffs

A nice, compact history of the Arizona lawmen who attempted law and order, and sometimes succeeded, taking us from the territorial era to the...

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Yellowstone Denied

Yellowstone Denied

The American West was hard country during  the 1860s-1890s. Men with uncommon ambition achieved fame and fortune, but Gustavus Doane was not one of...

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Frontiers

Frontiers

These Yale colleagues have excellently converted a college textbook into a concise, readable history, reminding me of narrative historians Ray...

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