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Beautiful Assassin By Michael White. 480 pp. Harper Perennial, 2011. $15.99. Snipers are inherently romantic figures. They reduce war to its elemental essentials: fighter, weapon, cunning, target. Make the sniper a gorgeous, deadly, and self-possessed Russian woman who notches more than 300 German confirmed kills during the fierce battle for Sevastopol, becomes an outsized Soviet …
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L.L. Nunn Made His Mine Profitable By Running His Mill With AC PowerThe Coloradan also educated engineers on the new technology. The year was 1889, and L.L. Nunn had a problem. He was manager of the Gold King mine, a few miles south of Telluride, C… Read MoreOnce Married to an Indian, Seth Eastman Wed a White Gal and Painted Death WhoopThe controversial painting shows a Dakota lifting an enemy’s scalp. Seth Eastman was a cartographer who taught mapmaking at West Point, while his own career was all over the map. E… Read MoreA Formidable Fighting Man, Jim Clark Served as Marshal of Telluride, ColoradoBad behavior cost him the job, but he later got back his badge. As the mining camp of Telluride on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies boomed in the 1880s, the usual assortme… Read MoreThe Trusted Lipan Apache Scout Johnson Helped Colonel Mackenzie Find the EnemyHe and other Lipans and Tonkawas worked against the Comanches. Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie drove his 4th U.S. Cavalry from Fort Concho north into the Texas Caprock in August 1874, … Read MoreLetters from Readers- Wild West April 2014KINGSTON FACTS The “Ghost Towns” piece by Melody Groves on Kingston, N.M., in the October 2013 issue, perpetuates myth. Kingston and Percha City were not the same but distinct comm… Read More
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