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As time was running out, something happened on Mindanao…but what? IN AUGUST 1945, despite their hopeless military situation, many Imperial Japanese Army units fought on. On the Philippine island of Mindanao, the 100th Division, commanded by General Jiro Harada, was holding out fiercely against Allied attacks. Pushed from the city of Davao, Harada’s command had …
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Packing Iron in the Real Old West Differed From the Way It Was Done in the MoviesGun leather on the frontier was not designed for fast shooting. For well over a century now a caricature of a cowboy dressed in batwing or woolly chaps, boots, Stetson and holstere… Read MoreStocking Full of Frontier AdventureClark B. Stocking put his life on the line many times as a soldier, scout, sheriff ’s deputy and shotgun messenger, yet he survived well into the 20th century and got a third chanc… Read MoreWild West Reviews: Red CloudRed Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux (1997, by RobertW. Larson) This compelling biography of one of the most fascinating 19th-century Indian leaders is suited to … Read MoreThe Industry That Won the Frontier West Gets Its Due at a Colorado Springs MuseumThe Western Museum of Mining & Industry is easy to dig. Gold! Exclaim that word to any Old West aficionado and his thoughts will usually turn to the nuggets James Marshall disc… Read MoreGhost Town: Coloma, CaliforniaIn 1845 James Marshall took a carpentry job with John Sutter, later constructing a sawmill to supply lumber for Sutter’s ambitious project—a colony he called New Helvetia (present-… Read More
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