Go West!
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery settled into Fort Clatsop. They would spend their final winter encampment a few short miles from the Pacific Ocean and the mouth of the Columbia River before returning east to St. Louis...
How Many Men Did Jesse James Kill Trying to count Jesse’s kill total isn’t really possible.
A question came in a few days ago from a reader wanting to know how many men did Jesse kill? Trying to count Jesse’s kill total during the war – it isn’t really possible. He joined the guerrillas in early 1864. Not long after joining, Jesse was wounded and out of...
Joe’s Mule “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the process than someone who hasn’t."
Old timers used to say, “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the process than someone who hasn’t.” During the 1940s my father had a mule named Soldier. He had a US brand on his hip and when I asked what that...
The Mexican Revolution’s Mata Hari
The elements of this story are as old as war—a beautiful spy, betrayal, a warning given and not taken, a pistol left for protection and the destruction of a town—and created one of the most unusual of victories for the revolutionaries in war-torn Mexico. No one, until...
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