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What are “long-tailed heroes”?

In the book Roughing It, Mark Twain refers to gunfighters as “long-tailed heroes.” What does that mean? Paul Gortarez Phoenix, Arizona Twain was...

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Prehistoric Americans and Science

Prehistoric Americans and Science

Recently I was asked why prehistoric peoples, those who were here before the arrival of the Europeans, weren’t more accomplished in the field of...

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Bringing Law and Order

Bringing Law and Order

The other day a friend asked me if I thought the Earp’s were pivotal figures in settling the west or the towns they policed. My first response was,...

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