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The Real Dirt on America’s Frontier Legends, by Jim Motavalli, Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah, 2019, $24.99 In this entertaining book Jim Motavalli profiles 17 frontier legends, the majority of whom … Read More
Shotgun MessengerThere was a mistake on P. 73 of Matthew Bernstein’s “Murder in the Black Hills,” in the December 2018 issue. The treasure coach from Deadwood to Cheyenne and Sidney … Read More
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world’s scariest moment Besides enjoying a galloping great read steeped in historiographical … Read More
We’ve all been there. A long week at work leads to blowing off some steam on a Friday night — which almost certainly leads to blowing some money. When you awake … Read More
The artist at work in his studio Silver Reef, Utah. Minutes north of St. George, Utah, off I-15 rests Silver Reef, a ghost of a mining town nestled among red … Read More
Engineer Railway Detachment 96446A braved blizzards and treacherous terrain while moving vital war materiel inland. MOTHER NATURE stormed in at 50 degrees below zero, overwhelming the forces of Engineer Railway Detachment … Read More
General Patton, a host of American officers, and troops of the 328th Regiment, 26th Infantry Division, watch a performance of the Lipizzaner stallions on August 21, 1945. (Photo from National … Read More
A San Diego museum showcases one of the Vietnam War’s most famous aircraft carriers Years ago I drove past the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Midway with a friend shortly after … Read More
Major Robert Rogers (Brown University Library) Lord Jeffery Amherst (Mead Art Museum, Amherst College/Bridgeman Images) In the predawn darkness of Oct. 4, 1759, a detachment of British Maj. Robert Rogers’ … Read More
On April 6, the nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, Charles H. Coolidge, died at the age of 99. The unassuming and quiet Coolidge passed peacefully while surrounded by family … Read More
