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Homesteaders grabbed free acres and used the earth itself to build the American dream. They crossed the great grasslands of the United States, powered by the American dream: land, a home. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862, pioneers were promised 160 acres, free. The condition: Live on the land and cultivate it …
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Colt Revolvers and Winchester Repeaters Are the West’s Most Legendary FirearmsBut Colt once had a lever-action rifle, and Winchester a six-shooter. Out of the dozens of gun manufacturers who invented and produced breechloading cartridge firearms during the s… Read More7th Cavalry Sergeant Daniel Kanipe: Saved by a Horse, but Not His OwnHe was sent to deliver a message, thanks to Sergeant Finkle’s tired mount. Many a man in the Old West admitted owing his life to his horse. But Sergeant Daniel Kanipe of the 7th Ca… Read MoreU.S. Marshal Stillwell Russell Fought Both Outlaws and Political EnemiesForced out of office, the Texas native did not give up the fight. In the 1870s Texas was a stamping ground of some of the most notorious outlaws of the frontier era. Stillwell Head… Read MoreCharlottesville’s Living Civil War LegacyOn Saturday, August 12, hundreds of protesters poured into Charlottesville, Virginia, bringing to the fore the legacy of the American Civil War and turning the otherwise typical un… Read MoreWild West Reviews: Billy the KidBuffalo Bill and Billy the Kid; or, The Desperadoes of Apache Land (1906, by Eugene T. Sawyer) Forget Pat Garrett. Here Billy falls to none other than Buffalo Bill Cody, in the com… Read More
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