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Billy Crosses Over

Billy Crosses Over

After his mother’s death in November 1874, young Henry McCarty fell in with a rough character named Sombrero Jack and drifted into a life of crime....

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Ely Parker

Ely Parker

The highest ranking American Indian in the U.S. Cavalry was General Ely Parker, an Iroquois from Indian Falls, New York. His hopes for a career were...

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Animal Cruelty in Movies

Animal Cruelty in Movies

Killing Horses with the Flying W It was said 100 horses were killed during filming of the chariot race in Ben Hur in 1925. Reeves “Breezy” Eason was...

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Chuckwagons

Chuckwagons

The mother ship of the trail drives was a broad-beamed, sturdily vehicle that carried virtually everything that ten men might need on a prairie...

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