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Two Red Cross volunteers discovered a whole new meaning of Thanksgiving in the jungle of Vietnam. Joann Puffer had a year of teaching and a year as an American Red Cross Donut Dolly in Korea under her belt when she volunteered to go to Vietnam in 1966. Looking for excitement, she found it visiting troops …
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Mrs. May Woodman Was Out to Kill, But Her Target Was Not Her SpouseThe Tombstone woman went after lover with a ‘Bulldog’. Five-foot-four, gray-eyed May Woodman, armed with a nickel-plated Bulldog pistol, walked down Fifth toward Allen Street in To… Read MoreGold Teeth and Lead BulletsA rich mouth and a loudmouth sparked reckless gunplay that seemed to involve nearly every man in Ballarat, California, and resulted in the wounding of two deputy sheriffs —two-thir… Read MoreJack Slade: Western Jekyll and HydeA steadfast manager of the Central Overland stagecoach line and the Pony Express, the man called Slade could transform—especially when whiskey talked—into a ruffian bent on wrongdo… Read MoreThe Union Pacific Gandy Dancers: Railroad Men and Their MythsNot all the tracklayers were Irish or strictly meat-and-potatoes men. First of all, they were all Irish. Second, they had to fight Indians every step of the way while laying track.… Read MoreEarly French Champion Of the American IndiansAlexis de Tocqueville was sympathetic but not optimistic. In Michigan Territory during the summer of 1831, young French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville met Indians not yet burdened … Read More
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