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France’s World War I infantrymen bore the brunt of Allied fighting in horrific Western Front trench warfare. “Poilu” (“hairy one”), the nickname for a French army infantryman, dates back to Napoleonic times, but it is most often used to refer to a French soldier who fought during World War I. From August 1914 until November …
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The National Park Service Has Rebuilt Ned Wynkoop’s Indian Agency Home at Fort LarnedGuests at the original building included Tall Bull and Black Kettle. Plans survived for the building Indian agent Ned Wynkoop rented from post sutler Theodore Weichselbaum at Fort … Read MoreNew Mexico’s Reviled Heroic PadrePadre Antonio José Martínez dared to speak out against Anglos and the French bishop, making him a sore thumb in this land with few priests. History is written by the victors. Great… Read MoreTo Lure Investors to Goldfield, Nevada, ‘Tex’ Rickard Promoted a PrizefightThe 1906 bout pitted the ‘Old Master’ against the ‘Durable Dane’ A massive crowd descended on Goldfield, Nevada, on Labor Day 1906. People arrived by train from as far away as Main… Read MoreOne-armed Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Johnson Once Chased After the Marlow BrothersHis right arm lost in a gunfight, he became a deadly left-handed shot. Lawman Ed Johnson was destined to play a lead role in the Marlow brothers’ remarkable story. In August 1888 h… Read MoreThe First White Woman to Enter the Black Hills, Annie Tallent Wrote Her Memoirs of That TimeArriving in the Dakotas in 1874, she was among a group of ‘trespassers’ While strolling the streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, in the summer of 1875, Annie Tallent spied a man… Read More
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