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Between Reb and Yank: A Civil War History of Northern Loudoun County, Virginia Taylor M. Chamberlin and John M. Souders; McFarland & Co. Following the October 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff—a Confederate victory that made it painfully clear to the Federals the war would not be over by that Christmas—Loudoun County was relegated to being …
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Lucien Maxwell: From Cimarron to Fort SumnerOnce the owner of an enormous land grant in northern New Mexico, the ‘Boss of Cimarron’ left it all behind to live at an abandoned Army post. A telegram from Cimarron, New Mexico T… Read MoreThe Mesker Brothers Found Good Business In Putting up False Fronts on the FrontierRestored Mesker facades still grace buildings in Western towns. “I just did not want anything bad to happen to it,” Barbara Corson says about the building she purchased and renovat… Read MoreWynkoop’s Gamble to End WarIn September 1864 Major Ned Wynkoop decided not to kill Indians but to discuss peace with them in western Kansas. Dog Man Chief Bull Bear interrupted the council on a tribu- tary o… Read MoreA Premonition of DeathWhen retired General James Byrne was working in west Texas for the T&P Railway, his mind was more on Victorio’s Apaches and his wife back home in Fort Worth. In the middle of A… Read MoreChisum: ‘Cattle King of the Pecos’This enterprising cattle dealer drove Longhorns west out of Texas to new markets in New Mexico Territory. Legend has it that in early March 1880 John Chisum faced down William H. B… Read More
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