Steeldusts on the Chisholm Trail
The stories of cowboy life on the Chisholm Trail are often recounted; even John Wayne shared a slice of Chisholm cowboyin’ in 1948’s Red River. But what about the horses who survived the up-to-two-month arduous trip leading thousands of longhorn cattle through...
Was Geronimo a Terrorist?
Geronimo. It is a warrior name for the ages—standing comfortably alongside the likes of Achilles, Leonidas, Genghis Khan, Patton and Rommel in its power—a storied name invoking cunning, courage, tenacity and uncompromising ferocity. On the territories of New Mexico...
El Jovencito
As blazing timbers crashed downward, destroying a once lovely adobe home and the dreams of its occupants, an era of hostility and bloodshed also came to its bitter climax. Destruction of the McSween home during a sultry July in 1878 brought to a dramatic conclusion...
Worms, Lice and Nothing Nice
Dr. Harold Brown (my professor at Dartmouth Medical School in 1975) wrote a masterpiece titled Basic Clinical Parasitology. He lectured that if all of the feces in the world were blue and all of the urine yellow, it would explain why most of the world is green! You...
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