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Robert Carter III was a most unlikely herald of liberty. The grandson of the Virginia land baron Robert “King” Carter (who convinced colonial authorities to let masters amputate the toes of runaway slaves) inherited a 65,000-acre empire of wheat plantations at age 4. Carter grew up to be a clothes-conscious dandy who mingled with George …
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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 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 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 MoreWright Was Might Among Oregon IndiansBenjamin Wright, who built a reputation as a fearsome Indian fighter, worked to broker peace as an Indian agent— until a half-blood friend turned on him. Gunfire cracked in the dis… Read More
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