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Nearly a century after young Edwin Halsey’s prank almost sparked a civil war, gunpowder and mischief mingled again in Charleston Harbor on January 9, 1961. The occasion was the reenactment of the firing on the Federal steamship Star of the West. One hundred years earlier, Citadel cadets had skillfully directed more than a dozen rounds …
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Arabia Steamboat Museum Captures Life on the Missouri in 1856Showcases sunken treasures, harvested from a farmer’s field. Nineteenth-century pioneers quipped that the big Western rivers were “too thick to drink, too thin to plow.” Boatmen kn… Read MoreWestering WalkerFur trader and explorer Joe Walker kept up his family’s wandering tradition and contributed mightily to U.S. expansion to the ‘far coast’. At the fur trade rendezvous of 1833 at Ho… Read MoreGhost Town: Tinton, South DakotaTinton is tucked in the rugged recesses of Spearfish Canyon, 13 miles due east of Deadwood. Its crumbling edifices belie a remarkably resilient mining town. Edgar St. John discover… Read MoreHere Be DragonsJohn Wesley Powell’s Colorado River Exploring Expedition completed its rapids-defying Grand Canyon passage 140 years ago, but the disappearance of three members remains a mystery. … Read MoreThe Search for Jessie EvansThe noted outlaw and Lincoln County War player seemingly rode off the pages of history in 1882. But recent research provides clues to his true identity and how he spent his later y… Read More
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