By the early 1850s gold fever had spread across the American West. Southwestern Oregon Territory was no exception, as placer miners had…
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By the end of the Civil War, it is estimated that surgeons on both sides had conducted roughly 60,000 amputations. With the…
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Buffalo Bill Delighted Italian Fans by Bringing His Wild West Across the Ocean Blue at the Turn of the Century
To this day virtually everyone in the United States has heard of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Even those not expert or…
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Jean Boulet’s first helicopter flight was almost his last. It was September 21, 1947, and the 26-year-old Boulet was at the Camden,…
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“No action of the civil war has been so little understood as that of Seven Pines,” Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston would…
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Once Italy surrendered to the Allies in September 1943, the Germans moved into the vacuum. Rome was declared an “open city” by…
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Center stage in a northern Colorado museum is an unmistakable symbol of the West. Faint lettering on the driver’s box of the…
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In September 1861, while stationed in Paducah, Ky., Private John H. Page of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery received notice that he…
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To Depict the Frontier Era with Authenticity, This Artist Walks in the Footsteps of Mountain Men
A historian with a brush and a palette, David Wright considers it his mission to depict America’s frontier era with precision. “We historical…
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Commandos on Wings” ran the headline of the article in Washington’s Evening Star on November 1, 1942. The subhead read, “They are…