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Why we should undo ‘Presidents Day’ and honor our greatest hero on the actual day he was born. ON FEBRUARY 23, 1792, Representative Fisher Ames of Massachusetts wrote home from Philadelphia, the nation’s capital: “Yesterday was the birthday. It was celebrated in a manner that must please the big man.” No need to say whose …
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Laughing Sam, Harry Young and Bummer Dan Were Embroiled in a Deadwood FeudThings turned deadly the month of Hickok’s murder. In July 1876 James Butler Hickok, better known as “Wild Bill,” was looking for a new start when he arrived in Deadwood, Dakota Te… Read MoreWynken, Blynken and Drinkin’: Denver Journalist Eugene FieldField wrote far more than tender children’s verse. Eugene Field is best remembered as the “Children’s Poet.” Elementary schools throughout the West bear his name—in Sioux Falls, So… Read MoreHow the West Was Measured: Mountaintop Calculations Meant Fewer Ground SurveysSurveyors faced obstacles but had geometry on their side. Soon after the Civil War ended, the United States began a major national surveying project, its object to measure a line o… Read MoreOne Young Kiowa Would Not Listen, Which Won Him Respect and a New NameBotalye rode alone against the soldiers’ position four times in a row. For four days after attacking a U.S. Army supply train at Gageby Creek in the Staked Plains of Texas, a Kiowa… Read MoreBooks in Brief | The Sacred WillowThe Sacred Willow, Mai Elliott, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2017 “Looking back over this narrative,” Mai Elliott writes, “one of the themes I see in it is the irony and unpredic… Read More
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