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Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3 by Robert K. DeArment, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2010, $29.95. The number of interesting frontiersmen known to have used their guns against other men is not countless. But Bob DeArment, who has written about law and order in the American West in many books …
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American History Book Review: The Sun and the MoonThe Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York Matthew Goodman, Basic Books, 384 pp., $26 In th… Read MoreThe Day the Music DiedBuddy Holly’s death 50 years ago forced a generation to confront its mortality. Every night brought the same relentless dream. She went to sleep, knowing he waited, still her husba… Read MoreBen Franklin’s Gift that Keeps on GivingOur nation’s founding inventor advanced the cause of democracy by devising a perpetual moneymaking scheme. In the spring of 1789, Benjamin Franklin was in his eighth decade and he … Read MoreJohn the BotanistThe father of our national parks saw divinity at work in plants large and small. John Muir is remembered for his grand vision of wilderness preservation that gave Americans such ma… Read MoreThe Cyclist VanishesA self-appointed goodwill ambassador lost more than his innocence when he tried to circle the globe in the 1890s on his spiffy two-wheeler. Americans in the 1890s were so crazy for… Read More
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