By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
Cleaving an Unknown World
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Lucky Bonner
The Last Cowboy President?
Lyndon B. Johnson compared going to Vietnam’s aid to coming to the aid of the defenders at the Alamo. Leonid Brezhnev derided Ronald Reagan as a...
Crazy Spy Gadgets from CBS’s Wild Wild West
James West was the American Bond on horseback. When he rode on screen in the 1965 delirious madhouse CBS series Wild Wild West, he, in the person of...
PEOPLE OF THE MOON
People of the Moon is part of the Gears’ First North American series, and this 13th installment focuses on the Chaco Anasazi, who lived in New...
Is the Alleged Josie Earp Photo Really of Evelyn Nesbit?
A former artist’s model turned “Florodora Girl,” Evelyn Nesbit married Philadelphia society scion Harry K. Thaw in 1906. A few months later, after...
Wanted: Billy the Kid Wanted Poster
For most of the last century, historians believed Billy the Kid never appeared on a...
Was Jesse James a Terrorist?
The new biography Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, recently published by Alfred A. Knoph, will no doubt cause some waves. Author T.J....
Everybody Hates Me!
Terry “Ike” Clanton, 44, is proud of his outlaw relatives. He thinks they got a raw deal at the so-called O.K. Corral gunfight. And he thinks Ike is...