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IN TYNEHAM, ON ENGLAND’S south coast, abandoned stone houses stand in roofless rows. Their gutted, weedy interiors suggest war’s aftermath, but the only aggressor here has been time, grinding away since the last villager left in December 1943, when the U.K. declared the village and surrounding region off limits to everyone but tank crews. “Please …
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The Long Arms of the LawThe West was wild, but plenty of public and private law agencies tried to tame it. Federal Marshals Town marshals and deputies are not to be confused with their federal namesakes. … Read MoreA Tale of Three Western CitiesWichita, Dodge City and Leadville employed a variety of novel tactics to keep gun-toting riffraff from disturbing the peace…sometimes the tactics actually worked. When Sam Botts, a… Read MoreLaw and DisorderSettlers in places where lawmen were few and far between often enforced their own rules of justice. Justice was often a matter of self-help for settlers in the Old West. Take this … Read MoreDynamite Stage Debut for a Train Robber’s DaughterEva Evans had just buried her thieving fiancé, and her one-armed father was in jail waiting trial, when she performed in a blood-and-thunder melodrama about the two outlaws. On Jul… Read MoreJustice Roy Bean: Justice of the FleeceJudge Roy Bean picked the pockets of everyone who entered his barroom court in west Texas. The legendary saga of Roy Bean began the day he was hanged from a poplar tree in Californ… Read More
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