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They won most major battles—while losing the American War of Independence. The way nations remember history is more important than strict truth, argued 19th century French writer Ernest Renan, and that is especially true where military history is concerned. The American War (as the Revolutionary War was known in Britain) has spun its own web …
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One-armed Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Johnson Once Chased After the Marlow BrothersHis right arm lost in a gunfight, he became a deadly left-handed shot. Lawman Ed Johnson was destined to play a lead role in the Marlow brothers’ remarkable story. In August 1888 h… 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 MoreThe 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 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 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 More
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