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Shot for Snoring?

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Published August 28, 2011
Written by Bob Boze Bell
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gunfights_john-wesley-hardin_charles-couger_abilene-kansasCharles Couger is sitting on a bed reading a newspaper in the American House in Abilene, Kansas.

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The Holy Grail for Sale

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Published May 24, 2011
Written by Mark Boardman
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The Billy the Kid tintype is on the auction block, and it might just clear half a million.

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The Lunacy of Billy the Kid

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Published July 27, 2010
Written by Mark Boardman
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You can't make this stuff up!

Two New Mexico lawmen receive death threats after digging up a body in Arizona.

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Celebrating Buffalo Bill

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Published May 02, 2011
Written by Steve Friesen
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Johnny Baker founded the Buffalo Bill Museum in 1921 near William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s grave on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado. It was the first museum dedicated to telling about the life and times of Buffalo Bill.

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General Palmer's Baby Railroad

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Published February 16, 2010
Written by Joyce B. Lohse
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A Civil War general's journey to build a railroad

In 1870, a former Union Army general named William Palmer supervised construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway into Denver, Colorado.

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Outlaw Ranch

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Published April 26, 2011
Written by Lazelle Jones
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outlaw_ranch_tavaputs_florence-creek_utahArriving with his dad and uncle in 1889 to homestead the lower end of Utah’s Desolation Canyon where Florence Creek empties into the Green River, Jim McPherson could not have imagined that more than 120 years later his progeny would still be here, a continuing and permanent fixture on the east central Utah landscape.

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A Mirror with a Memory

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Published February 16, 2010
Written by Meghan Saar
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A precious daguerreotype captured in a print speaks of the appeal historical images can hold over collectors.

An Indian with his thick, long braids wrapped in otter fur stands beside an oil portrait of a woman and a baby.

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How Did Davy Really Die?

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Published February 22, 2011
Written by Bob Boze Bell
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Davy Crockett vs. Santa Anna's Army

Just after midnight, Gen. Santa Anna orders his 2,064 troops to move toward their assault positions.

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Pancho Villa and the El Paso Connection

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Published February 01, 2009
Written by Leon C. Metz
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¡Ay Chihuahua! How this strategic U.S. town launched the Mexican Revolution.

Although Pancho Villa—whose real name was Doroteo Arango—is the best known figure of the Mexican Revolution, Villa would perhaps never have gained such recognition were it not for Porfirio Díaz.

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